Trip to ABQ - Ashlee Nichols

We’ve spent the last few days in Albuquerque visiting my Grandma (Jeannie aka GG) for her 86th birthday. We enjoyed getting to spend time with her and go to some great places in Albuquerque!

We got there on Wednesday, and with Brett’s driving and the help of Steve Jobs, our drive there was pretty easy! Laikyn played her iPad and slept, so the 4 and a half hours went by pretty quickly. We met my parents there, and it’s always great to see them! Laikyn is in love with both Mammie and Pop Pop so much that I felt like she didn’t even want her parents the whole time!

We ate at Buca on the night we got there. It was our first time eating pizza since we got food poisoning a few weeks ago, but it was soooo good!

Thursday, we had a big breakfast at the hotel and took LC swimming! She LOVED IT! We headed over to Jeannies for some shopping and lunch. If you’ve never been to Uptown ABQ, I recommend it. It’s such a great area with tons of great stored and restaurants. We started our venture with Trader Joe’s and I was beyond excited! I have seen so many posts about the fabulous finds from there, and finally got to obsess for myself. The Cookie Butter Sandwich cookies and toasted coconut chips are my favorite! We even had to make another trip before we left for more goodies!

We also went to the coolest Target ever that takes your cart down an escalator for you. And I don’t know about you, but I can always find cooler stuff at a Target that isn’t your own. Swimsuits were buy one get one half off so I got some that will work for pregnancy and post partum this summer! And of course LC got some goodies! We had lunch and then did some shopping! lululemon was top on my list! I got some sale tops (which I never find anything good on sale and they had a TON!) we had dinner that night for Jeannie’s birthday at a steak house and it was delicious. Laikyn had fun playing with her cousin and we had a great time visiting.

Friday was supposed to be our last day, so we swam that morning and went to have lunch at a Jeannie’s favorite Mexican food place. We said our goodbyes and were about to head home, but Brett and I decided to go out to Sandia Resort and Casino for the night. We took LC to see the Indian statues and to throw pennies in the wishing waterfall. We got to eat PF Changs which is one of our favorites any time we travel!

We headed back to the resort and Brett got to gamble a little bit! A good nights sleep for everyone and a prenatal massage for mama the next morning…our trip was complete!