New Mexico CITY / STATE 3

After a nice and expensive time in Las Vegas we decided that it was time to head for New Mexico. We wanted to see some sights since we hadn´t done that yet. So we went to some aztec ruins in the north of New Mexico. After we had crossed the border to New Mexico we drove a little wrong and came in to a little road were we saw one of the coolest things in our lives. We saw a real black bear!!! It just walked infront of our car and we were very amazed!!! It walked over the road and then it disappeared in the forest. We even got some pictures and googled the bear and found out that the black bear is the state animal of New Mexico.

Picture of the very cool black bear 

After our very cool animal adventure we turned our car around and headed back to the aztec ruins, this time we even found the right way. The ruins wasn´t as cool as we expected but it was interesting anyway :) Our guide was named Jane and she told us that the ruins was very old. Apparently the last aztec leader had been killed by the Spanish in year 1525 and the peoples cities began to fall apart.

Since the ruins wasn´t so interesting we decided to move on towards Alberquerque. When we were driving towards Albuquerque we began to plan what to do and we checked if there was anything special about Albuquerque. So that when we arrived we would know just where to go. When we arrived to Albuquerque the clock was about 8pm and we parked outside the Alberquerque BioPark so that we would be the first people there in the morning. When we parked and had taken a shower we went out to find a nice restaurant. Because of the nice rumors that we heard about a restaurant called desert fish we asked some peoples on the street for the way and we arrived only a few minutes later. On the restaurant we ate a seafood salad, the dish sounded so disgusting so we just had to try it. It turned out to taste really good though and it was a nice dish of crab meat, grilled prawns, scallops, grilled onion on a bed of salad. After the dinner we went straight home and went to bed. 

The tasty salad 

The next morning we had set the clock at 8am and we ate some breakfast and went to the BioPark. The biopark was divided in four parts: Aquarium, Botanic Garden, Zoo and Tingley beach. We visited every one of them. In the aquarium it was 285 000 gallons of ocean water and it had a so called “eel tunnel”. In the aquarium it was a lot of sharks swimming beside colorful reef fishes, eels and seaturtles. Next on the list was the Botanic Garden whit a lot of beautiful plants. The garden was like an oasis in the desert, just a quiet and nice place to sit and think about stuff and relax in. However we didn´t had time to relax because we were already on our way to the awesome zoo. The zoo was founded in 1927 and contains more than 250 different species of exotic and native animals. So we began to walk through the zoo and we saw among others zebras, jaguars, elephants, polar bears and hippos. When we had walked through the zoo Farnam checked on his gps and we had been walking for 2,25 miles just in the zoo! The Tingley Beach was actually where we got our food that day; we fished it up several fishes from the central pound. We also rented a pedal boat for a while. After the visit on the BioPark we were so tired so we just cooked our fishes, ate them and went to bed.

Some pictures from the bio park

The next day we took the world’s longest tramway in the world (Sandia Peak tramway) to the Betty’s Bath and Day spa. At the spa we just took it easy and relaxed, we swam a little and talked whit some other American peoples at the spa. We even got an interview whit one of them, a nice old American lady. She was born in Texas in 1930 and had moved to Albuquerque at the age of ten and had lived there since then. At the age of 16 she had got pregnant and wasn´t allowed making an abort so she had her fist son at the age of 17. She said that she liked USA and everything whit it especially the taxes. I asked her what she thought about Sweden and she answered that she didn´t even know anything about it except that the car brand Volvo was Swedish. Then I asked her what she thought about when I said Europe and she said quoting: “Fashion, taxes, wealth and small peoples.” I laughed at her and looked around in the room; everyone had some extra weight if I can put it that way except two young ladies.

After the spa we went to our little house car and right now we are packing our stuff because we´re going to freaking TEEEEEEEXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSS!!!

over and out form Linus, Hugge and Farnam ;)