Travel Blog

I'm not much into sports, so I wasn't planning on watching the Olympics, but Phil was out massaging the other night and I was home alone flipping through channels and stopped on the men's short-track speed skating. I was watching the qualifiers, and saw Apolo Ohno, who started dead last and who skated in last place up until the final lap (he looked like he was just out for a relaxing skate most of the time), with the announcers saying with every lap that he should be about to make his move soon, when all of a sudden he went into the last turn and whipped around every other skater to beat them by quite a distance. And I must admit I was shouting and cheering him on, clapping my hands like the wind-up cymbal monkeys. It was thrilling. And I ended up watching the rest of the events that evening. In a time of such divisiveness, it's nice to have things like the Olympics that unite us. (Even though I will admit to rooting for the Chinese figure skating couple last night - they were freakin' awesome.)

Phil and I head out of Albuquerque tomorrow morning. We just have a few things to wrap up here before we leave, like signing our tax forms at the Tax Lady's place (who, by the way, decorates her office in various hues of purple, including a purple mouse for her computer, and who, every year commends us on how we live our lives in one breath and yells at us for having so many damn W-2s in her next breath) and going out for Chinese food tonight with Pat and Paula. I also want to swing by this old psychiatric hospital that they're turning into a hotel here (we are making plans to come back and stay there when they open - talk about haunted!), and take some pictures of it to share on here.

So I guess that's it for now...see you in Phoenix!