Action packed Albuquerque!

Well today has been full of action - so much so that it deserves a blog post all to itself.

We arose and got out of the hotel by 10am and then went to Costco for a nice healthy and nutritious breakfast - kosher hotdogs (jonny had a polish hotdog) and we shared an 18 inch pizza which was devoured over the course of the day. Then we went to secure our College Basketball game tickets but we couldn't find the arena at first, so we asked a few students on the University campus and eventually made it there. We got the tickets and head out for the cinema.

We had looked on the map and the cinema's website said that it was straight forward to get to the venue, but after a good 20 minutes trying, we had to stop and ask for directions only to find out the cinema was over a mile away from where the website said it was! We were too late for the film we wanted to see at first, so we went to see a film called Soul Men, which had caught our eye when we were in New York. Suffice to say the plot it and of itself is interesting, but some of the scenes and most of the language were just there for the sake of it, and didn't really add to the film itself.

We quickly stopped off at the hotel again, and then went to a local Shooting Range. None of us had fired a gun before, and if I'm honest I was pretty apprehensive at first, especially with the sound that people were making firing off their own guns in the booth's around us. We hired out 2 guns - a Glock (9mm) and a Magnum Revolver (very loud). I started off on the 9mm and after figuring out how to actually load the magazine into the gun correctly (thanks Jonny!) I started to aim and figure out how to get reliable results. We each had 16 rounds on both guns, trying to hit accurately our targets at different distances - I even managed to get a bullseye too! Then I tried out the revolver, which was much larger and heavier than the Glock was. It was easier to load, but the amount of recoil (the kickback when you fire) wasn't something I was expecting. Also the explosion was much louder when you fired the bullet - so much so I could feel the heal on my face from it!

We video'd each other and had much fun, and then set out for the Basketball game. Parking wasn't as easy as we'd hoped but we managed it eventually, and got into supporting the Lobo's. After the game (which the Lobo's won against the Californian team, the Matadors) we stopped off at a Route 66 cafe for a drink and a light dessert before signing out for the day.

Albuquerque was fun and we managed to pack a lot into it!

Stay classy Albuquerque...