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Work sent me to set up and man a tradeshow booth in Albuquerque this past week. Overall the days were long but I had good company and plenty of laughs. The conference was at a hotel on the edge of Old Town which was full of cute shops and restaurants. Monday night I had food poisoning of some sort but I was good for the rest of the trip, though scared to try more of the red chili sauce :) They gave the exhibitors a 2 hour break for lunch, so after going to lunch with the group I usually walked around old town where I got some more silver jewelry and did buy a small piece of pottery. Exhibitor hours went till 7pm, so by Wednesday we started tearing down at 3pm, so I could hopefully see a sunset. We were on the tram going up the Sandia Mountains at 5:40 but it was really cloudy so I was a bit worried. We lucked out and it was gorgeous. Just freezing and windy - but worth it. We actually had to wait on standby for about 35 minutes while they added extra weights to the cable cars since winds had picked up (probably over 40mph). Then we headed out to a local restaurant recommended by a newspaper lady and that was definitely the best meal of the trip. Jim and Ken's stuff sopapilla was the size of their head! I stuck with soft tacos that had wonderful guacamole. Then we headed home yesterday before the snowstorm struck :)