It has been an exciting weekend here in ABQ! As you all know, Saturday was St. Patrick's Day! That night we went out and celebrated with all of our new friends..but during the day, we went on a new adventure! We went to the Petroglyph National Monument just to the West side of Albuquerque. Here, there are 5 ancient volcanoes that had created a huge lava-flow mesa around them. In all of these lava rocks are trails and hiking paths that go up and through this mesa. We spent the day exploring this amazing landscape! If that wasn't awesome enough, what was really to see here is the Petroglyphs. In ancient times, the Pueblo Indians - who lived here then - would use this mesa as hunting and spiritual grounds. So, these rocks and land is covered in Petroglyphs, or rock drawings. Most of these are from 400-700 years old. The oldest dating older than 1000 years old. It was truly amazing to see!
Amazing huh? I still can't believe we live here! We can't wait to visit the actual volcanoes that created all this...as well as the still existing Pueblo Indians! Stay tuned for that!
Moving on with our weekend...I'll tell you what is really amazing. See how beautiful it was Saturday? PERFECT weather! Well, when it storms here, it obviously doesn't rain - it's the desert. It does lightning and thunder...but it is SO WINDY! Wind like I have never felt before! And, like I said, this is the desert so there is no grass - in fact there is no dirt. It's all SAND. So what did we get Sunday? A major sand storm.
Luckily, after St. Patty's Day...Sunday was a day of recovery and relaxation (hehe) and we were able to stay inside while we listened to this craziness outside. To get these pictures we went out for just a bit to take a friend back to their car...at one point we were still this close behind and we could not see them. at all. It was a little scary.... not to mention at least half the city was out of power.
One more thing about this - later Sunday night it did start raining slightly. We took Bailey out for a walk before bedtime and the one thing I could notice more than anything is the smell. To my fellow Missourians (or friends who live in grassy places)...you know how when it rains in springtime and it smells good? Like fresh grass...or like, well, spring? They even have candles made after it. Well the first thing I noticed was it smelled like wet dirt. Like mud kind of. Kind of like gardening...or playing in the mud as a kid and then having to get washed off with a watering hose? It was really strange. But really, after such a huge sand storm literally everything was covered in dirt and sand and now wet. Yuck!
And by the way - I am also doing a model video blog for The Network - basically a huge network that connects hundreds of modeling agencies all over the world. They had asked me to be a part of their travel model blogs before I left Little Rock and my first blog is up! Check it out here:
Thats all for now! Thanks for checking in!
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