Saturday, April 21, 2012

Founder's Festival

Saturday, April 21, 2011 Day 314

We stayed in Albuquerque today, because there was a festival going on in Old Town...a 306th birthday festival for the city.

Last night Harris was checking out the other class B vans in the park, and ran into this one. He got to talking to the guys who were traveling in it, and wow! discovered that we'd met them last year in Savannah, Georgia! small world indeed.



We tried to get to town early enough to find a good place to park. Because we did, we were able to do a couple of geocaches. One was called "Cinderella's Shoe " and took us to a house whose yard was decorated with all kinds of "found" objects. One pole in front of the yard was covered with old shoes that had been nailed on it. The cache was inside one of these shoes!



There were several of these large figures around the town square, all representing different cultures.


There were various kinds of performances going on in about 6 different areas. Harris particularly liked the Mexican bands and dancers.






This is a flamenco dancer. She was impressive!




Dancers waiting their turn to go onstage. We loved all the colorful costumes.






Later in the afternoon, all the figures were gathered together in one place. We were getting very tired and hot by this time, so we decided to leave and head back to our campsite.


We don't have a picture of it, but Judy got Harris out dancing. One area had a square dance band and caller, and anyone who wanted to could get up to dance. So we did! It was fun! We haven't done that since our days of "barn dancing" in Juneau....long ago.


Total miles driven today=35

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