Albuquerque Day Three: Monday

 

Walking from the casita through this park 
to the history-science museum 
about a 3 block walk

Monday morning was beautiful!  After showering, we had a simple breakfast of coffee, fruit and rye toast and decided to drink more cofffee in the courtyard while doing our devotional time. After that, we were meeting Dave's brother Peter and his wife Kathy at the History museum about 3 blocks from the house we were renting.  Peter and Kathy had to fly back to the East Coast early the next morning, so this was our time for just the 4 of us to hang out.  Adam was working, and everyone else was in the air flying back to their respective homes.  Dave and I walked to the museum as it was so close to the casita. 

The History museum was very interesting.  The admission fee included a planetarium show that was pretty good. 

Dave was thrilled to see some dinosaurs and learn about some of the history surrounding them. 

"Alberta" the dinosaur roamed the 
northern part of North America.
Its fossils were found in NM!

the Pentasaurus 

Dave on the right next to a fave dinosaur display

Unfortunately, it was the last week of school for most public schools in NM, so the museum had a lot of groups there for field trips while we were there.  I can now see why NM is rated as  the 2nd worse public school system academically speaking in the states (Mississippi being the worst) because those teachers were not paying attention at all to their students. Children were running and yelling all over the museum.  One little guy came up to me and asked for help with a hands on experience....I had to tell him I was not his teacher and to go find his teacher!!  We were all appalled!!  This is NOT how NY and MA school field trips take place. When I was teaching, I had to have 2 students per teacher and we all had to hold hands. It was awful to see and I had to keep telling my self to NOT interfere.  But wow.  Just appalling!!  I later found out via this link that they are not 49th.  They are actually higher now than Alabama which is higher than Arizona which is rated the worst.  MA and NY are 1 and 2.

 YIKES! Those bottom few states need to get it together! 

Once we got away from the various school groups, we enjoyed the museum. 

interesting fact!!

my sister in law and I loved the art of these tiles

more beautiful art work

a sequoia "hundreds of years old"
according to the signage

This cracked me up!!
Why??
Because I was born and raised in Herkimer, NY!!
This is actually a "tourist" stop: the Herkimer Diamond Mines!
And to have it on display in New Mexico was just so cool to see!
Yes, I have a small bottle of herkimer diamonds I bought back in about 2005
when we took our daughters, then ages 11 and 6 to "dig for diamonds"

Around 1 pm, we decided we were done with the museum (We had seen every section except the hands on school room section) and it was lightly raining outside. Peter and Kathy gave us a ride back to the house and they decided to go out for pizza. We decided to eat some of the food we had bought for lunches and spent the afternoon watching a really good movie on Netflix. (we were allowed to use the roku and sign in to our account).  We watched Nonnas.  HIGHLY recommend!!

Half way through the movie, the rain stopped. We ended up eating the rest of the leftovers we had from dinner the first night so we just stayed in the casita all the rest of Monday enjoying another movie called The Trap. That one was good but Nonnas was better! We ended up going to bed early as we were tired and wanted to be back at the Petroglyphs when they opened the next day. 

Day 3 was a nice, relaxing day after two hectic and action packed days. 

If you were to visit Albuquerque, what would you like to do first??