Mirrors

Is it just me or do my mirrors at home lie to me? The mirrors in my house definitely don't make me feel as bad as the ones in my hotel room. I think that will hold true for the hotel I'll be in up in Albuquerque. Maybe at home I'm just pretty good at ignoring the flaws.. I guess maybe if this motivates me some how to be depressed about myself every time I travel....

Anywho, so I'm currently in Las Cruces, NM. I came down here for a recruiting trip. The flight down was great, I had no one in my row from BWI to Atlanta and only one other person in the row from Atlanta to El Paso. The only snafu was the fact that we almost missed our connecting flight. We were almost to the gate at 10:40 and the leaving flight was supposed to leave at 10:50. By some grace of the travel gods, both flights had been changed from their original terminals to the SAME terminal. We only had to walk a few yards to make it. Anything else, we probably would've missed the flight.

The drive from El Paso to Las Cruces (only about 45 min.) is rather interesting. I looked to my left and there was Mexico. It's a little weird to see a different country and realize that it looks a lot different (the housing mostly). I wonder what the people who live in the houses along the border think about our side. The mountains here are very interesting looking, I'm not used to mountains without trees. When the sun hits them, sometimes they turn pink. I didn't get pictures yet, but I'm going to try on my way out of town. Unfortunately, everything is pretty brown, no green. Oh! I actually saw a cow lot. I've read about them in certain books that talk about these massive areas with tons of cows in them. We actually passed quite a few on the drive to Las Cruces. Very intriguing, and definitely not what I think of as agriculture. Growing up in PA the cows had lots of green and space (though the cows always stayed pretty close to eachother).

Today, I drive up to Albuquerque, which according to Mapquest is just over 3 hrs. I'll be lunching with my cousin and then trying to figure out what to do when she goes to class. Apparently my uncle won't be home until 9:30 pm and I'm not sure how comfy I am just hanging out with his wife and kids. I think I might go to the Botanic Garden or perhaps the Sandia Peak Arial Tram. The tram would let me view the ski place at the top. Unfortunately, I was dumb and forgot my snowpants, or else I'd be going snowboarding!

Maybe I'll do both? Of course I have no idea how far apart everything is, so....maybe not. Anywho, it's getting late and I need to pack to I can go pick up the car and start driving.

I'll put up pics when I get some! Oh and absolutely no knitting, I was too obsessed with finishing the last book of the Twilight Series (Breaking Dawn). Perhaps I'll talk about that sometime...