So last night I slept through the night for the first time in... oh, I don't know how long. Now in anticipation of being homeless today, and just about an hour before we found out we weren't, I'd given away the food in the fridge and the freezer that wouldn't survive a hotel room or a homeless shelter. Of course that means that this week could have been pretty tough. We ended up making a run down to The Storehouse for food, and we got pretty lucky this weekend because they had lactose free milk, low carb tortillas and ground chicken as well as the stuff they usually have (breads and sweets). We were able to get quite a lot, and the only bread we got (besides the tortillas) was a package of pita. Cay got herself this single serve mint frosting pastry thing, ate it, and immediately felt unwell. I think next time she'll know to pass on those pastries... hopefully ALL the pastries...
After The Storehouse, we went down to Old Town for the festival at Albuquerque's oldest church, San Filipe de Neri. Cay and I split an Indian Taco for lunch, and I was rather disappointed because the fry bread was more like a crispy flour tortilla, and the beans and veggies were extremely sparse. The rest of the event wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped, and it wasn't terribly well attended, but then the Albuquerque Folk Festival was going on today as well (but tickets were $20, and the church festival was free). We got bored after about an hour and came home.
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| about 90% of the festival was festival food, which didn't have a lot of interest for us. |
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| I think the highlight of the day for Cay was petting the police horse. |
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| although this spunky senior dance group was a lot of fun. They are all over 60, and one of them was doing cartwheels all over the square. |
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| I did get a few nice photos... not from the festival, but some of the cactus in Old Town. |
Tomorrow Cay just wants to stay home, but I think we'll probably go out to the Botanical Garden to photograph butterflies in the morning. We can sit home and do nothing on Monday...
