After heading out from our fun evening in Lamesa, we set sail for Carlsbad, home of the famous caverns. We had a really nice visit with Mary Ann's folks. We brought a lot of good food with us, since we decided the best way to really get a concentrated visit in was to eat at home. Besides, there aren't alot of great choices for dining in town. If we had gone out, out best choice would have been Blake's Lotaburger. Enough said? We did try sneaking out on Saturday night, after the folks had gone home from dinner at our place. We were thinking, "it's Saturday night in the Big City,blah blah..."), and we had spotted a neat looking old hotel called The Trinity that has an Italian restaurant and nice looking bar. Something, we thought, very different for Carlsbad. So we got dressed up in our best jeans and drove on over. We walked in behind another couple and their kids, started for the bar, and were intercepted by the hostess as if we were breaking the line at Studio 54. She sternly looked at Mary Ann and said, "These people were here first. Wait to be seated!" To which Mary Ann replied, "We're here just to look at the bar." I was already eyeing the scene there-two lonely folks who looked like they had permanent seats, and that was it. Not exactly worth gettin' all gussied up fer. The hostess with the mostest kept on about waiting to be seated at the bar....as we were making our getaway. I mean, the rudeness of people today! Crashing the line, just to look at the bar! Well, we drove around town after that little disaster, checked out the mall-sleeping, the other bar-almost asleep, the Wal-Mart parking lot-really busy, but not what we had in mind. We headed back home to Harvey, watched a movie on our Roku Netflix Player, and wondered why we hadn't just decided to do that in the first place. Next stop, our former second home of Santa Fe.....
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