The kids and I headed up to Albuquerque last weekend.  We left town around 10am  on Saturday and headed straight for Talin Market.  It is a little international market, nicely laid out.  However, use restrooms elsewhere.  We were able to find our spring roll wraps, fish sauce, sticky toffee pudding and Vietnamese coffee makers!  Yeah!  After shopping we had a couple orders of spring rolls at the little restaurant on the other side of the parking lot.  Very good.  

After our snack we went shopping at Barnes & Noble and then headed over to Sport Systems to pick up our race t-shirts and packet.  They had only the kids sizes left, since they had changed the system and not held shirts for those that preregistered.  Nice.  They promised to mail mine.  Not a big deal since we were wearing the St Clair shirts on race day anyway.  While we were there the hail and rain came.  It was intense.  We were running around through cold running water to get our stuff.  I couldn't stop giggling.  The water was literally running over my ankles.  The kids and I were soaked.  

We were in a hurry not to get to the hotel to clean up before meeting Rebecca at the Bistro.  The hotel was lovely, staff friendly and room clean.  In addition, they had the most delicious, warm, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.  This is the view from our room.  We were on the 14th floor.  The building across the plaza is the Hyatt where Rebecca was staying.  They are prepping for the Cinco De Mayo celebration in the plaza.  The kids wanted to spend the entire weekend in the room.  

We made it to the Bistro, got our St Clair tshirts and headed to the BBQ.  Quite a busy start to the weekend.