The Goodrums

Last weekend, we decided to take a road trip to Albuquerque to see how the good ol' Ags fared against New Mexico. After our loss to Arkansas State, our enthusiasm about the game waned significantly. However, we stuck with our plans to see a (relatively) cheap Aggie football game.

We carpooled to Albuquerque with some Aggie friends we met at the church we've been attending and their mountain dog, Frisco. We stayed the night with one of Michael's high school (well, college too) friends and his wife, who I ended up knowing from A&M (a complete surprise).

While in Albuquerque, we had an incident which made me determine that living in New Mexico is not good for your health. Prior to the football game, we went to eat lunch at Rudy's BBQ (green chile stew - yummm...). A guy immediately ahead of us in line passed out cold at the counter and his head slammed into the concrete floor of the restaurant. He was unconscious for a minute before he came to and had a pretty significant head injury. We immediately called 911. During the time that passed we found out that the guy had a heart condition and called again to report (and urge them to hurry up). They actually told us to stop calling! It took the ambulance over 30 minutes to get to the restaurant - and then the most disturbing part was that the paramedics casually sauntered in when they finally showed up. They were in no hurry at all. The whole thing was highly disturbing.

Here are a couple pictures from the game (which was depressing and had some of the worst officiating I have ever seen - mostly to the dismay of New Mexico).














Ol' Ag pride. Wow...

















Game time in scorching heat

The pictures we took of us at the game didn't really turn out. Oh well. It was an interesting experience and a few memories I'd like to forget.

On our 6 1/2 hour drive home, we stopped in Vegas (New Mexico, that is) for dinner at Johnny's Kitchen. Interesting digs. Here's the barber shop across the street:


















We couldn't decide if the picture on the sign is what you look like before or after the haircut. :)