Anna and George

When I worked at the HSA at the county I worked quite a bit with Anna McDade. Anna worked for one of the directors Linda Henderson. Linda said some very nice things at my retirement party and Anna was at the party.

Even though Anna was not a Facebook friend of mine, she was a friend of a friend and I happened to notice she had moved to Albuquerque after I retired. 

I Facebook messaged her and told her we would be in Albuquerque for a week. We decided we would try and get together and catch up while we were here. We agreed to get together after we went to church on Sunday.

We found a church called Legacy Church not to far from where we are staying. It turned out to be a huge church of about 12,000 people! WOW!

Sorry about the picture quality but I took it with my phone and with the lighting on stage pointing at me it didn't come out well.

Legacy Worship band

Legacy seemed to be a great church! It reminded us a lot of New Life, just larger. Great worship, great message  The pastor reminded us of Pastor Steve (his name was Steve), in that he preached the Gospel and did not water it down. Not afraid to offend! Amazing the church has grown so big. It seems that some of the "Mega churches" are just 'positive' message feel good meetings!

After church we went to Anna and George's house. George also worked at HSA with veterans. I had seen him but never met him. After catching up we went to the Frontier restaurant to eat. This was on Adam Richman's Man Vs Food TV show.

Anna, George, Patty and Brian

I had the Adam Bonanza Burger that Adam had on the show. It is a double bacon cheeseburger with green chili's!

Adam Bonanza

Patty got the enchilada plate. New Mexico always puts chili sauce either red or green on their enchiladas. If you want both it's called Christmas. Note to the server, Green is the hot one! Lol

Christmas enchiladas

We normally don't get soda's anymore. First it's not good for us, and second it is an unnecessary expense to the dining bill. However they had the Coke Freestyle machines which we had never seen before. Apparently Toppers in Oxnard has one, but we have never seen it. You can pick abut 150 combinations of soda!

Coca-Cola Freestyle

They make a killer cinnamon roll that they end up also soaking in butter. Can you say heart attack?!! George decided that he and Anna had to have one, and decided to come back with one for Patty and me also! 

Yummy!

They are ridiculously good!!!

George had to go back to California for a few days to take care of some business, so on Tuesday we asked Anna to come over to the 5th wheel to visit and Patty made spaghetti. We had a nice evening visiting again.

On Wednesday we went to the Hard Rock casino with Anna. It is Senior day on Wednesday. Seniors count as 50 year old plus. They have a $4.99 lunch special. 2 choices pot roast with all the fixins or open faced turkey sandwich with gravy. Anna and I had the pot roast, Patty had the turkey. It was very good.

Anna was nice enough to treat us! Thanks Anna.

For new players card members they give you $25.00 of free play. Also because of senior day they give you an extra $5.00 to play. You do not have to play any of your own money so we did not!

We ended up cashing out about $45.00. Not bad. Had a good time for about 3 hours with Anna and made a few bucks. 

What's really nice is that we made new friends with old acquaintances. Pretty cool!

God Bless,

Brian and Patty