Wow, that's Windy

Wednesday, March 8th

The original plan was to go up to Sandia Peak today on the 2 Mile airway tram. Now a tram is basically a large bucket hanging from a string going up a mountain for 2 miles... a little on the scary side, but perfectly safe. However when I got up and couldn't walk into the wind it was so strong that idea changed dramatically.

Instead, I decided to go to the route 66 diner for lunch. I had originally planned to go there on Thursday but the wind hath spoken and I shall obey. The diner was really neat, every bit the 60's diner experience all the way down to the uniforms and how they made the milkshakes. The burgers were awesome, the shake was HUGE and boy was it tasty. They had some really interesting materials and such around from the route 66 days a nice map of the entire original route 66. More pictures of the diner are here

After lunch and a nap, I went out to play at Sandia, the cards were better today getting pocket A's 4 times and hitting quad J's as well. Quads at Sandia are worth 2250 points, which translates to about 5 dollars in comps. WOOO!! Fortunately they can be spent across the street for Gas so 5 dollars in free gas is well, 5 dollars in free gas. I had to wait a little to get on a table, and picked up 40 at blackjack while waiting and then 8 hours of poker netted a nice 407. I am starting to like this place, it is a real grind but the pots are really nice and when the hands hit they pay.