Coco and Albuquerque/Dream Theater

Coco

I went to see Pixar's newest movie Coco on October 27th (living in México for once meant being able to see a Hollywood movie weeks before the rest of the world, incluiding the US). I really recommend that movie to just about anyone. I really liked it. I enjoy Pixar movies a lot, and Coco managed to climb easily in my top 3 Pixar movies. I don't really have the Mexican culture rooted in me and still, I really liked the way they did it.

Albuquerque

On Sunday October 29th, me and Mari went to Albuquerque to a Dream Theater concert. The concert started at 7:30pm but we decided to go early to do some hiking. We did one small trail which was pretty cool. It had been a long while since I went out to hike, and it felt pretty good. Although I am terribly out of shape.

Then we went to another trail which didn't really have anything interesting and it was right next to some houses and there was nothing to be seen, so we decided to not do it. We went to Old Town cause it was kind of early for us to go to the venue, but we didn't really have that much time to go and do other stuff.

Then we went to visit Walter White's house. It had all these signs about trespassing. 

Then we went to eat and then to see Dream Theater. I always have a blast when I see them. This one was better still, cause they played their album Images & Words in its entirety, which is a really good album. They didn't have an opening band and played for 3 hours.

Then, we had to drive back to El Paso cause this guy had to work in the morning. Somehow, Mari managed to stay awake the whole way back and helped in me not falling asleep at the wheel. We got to El Paso at around 4am, and I got home at 4:30am and had to wake up at 7am. It took me like a full week to get my sleep back where it was. But it was worth it.

I remembered why I like going out of town so much, even if it's just for the day. I really enjoy it.

See you next week.

Caifanes & Board Gaming

This is almost 2 weeks late, and it's only my second post, good start.

Caifanes

So I went to see Caifanes on the 20th of October. I used to listen to them a lot when I was in secundaria, and I still heard some of their songs here and there, so I figured, what the hell, let's go.

The organizers or the venue or whoever did a terrible job. The concert started at 9, we got there at 8. Not that early, but definitely with some time to find a not so horrible seat. We stood in a line of several hundred people that are getting into the stadium one at a time. The line went around half the stadium. 8:30, still veeery far to the entrance. 9:00, still can't see the entrance. 9:15, we hear people inside the stadium yell. Yes, Caifanes just walked into the stage, and we are still not close to the entrance. "Viento" starts playing. I was very pissed. It was at this exact moment that the line started to advance faster. We missed two whole songs.

Overall it was a pretty good show. I realized then that I really don't know a lot of Caifanes songs. I knew like half of the ones they played. I didn't take pictures cause I was very far. They played for a little over 2 hours, which is pretty good. No opening bands.

Board gaming

Then I went to a board gaming meetup the next day. I love me some board games! It was at a house. The owner had hundreds of games!!! About half of them still in shrink wrap, the madness!!! We played a couple of new games (Kingsburg and Yggdrasil), both pretty cool games.

And then went back to Mari's to play some Harry Potter deck builder.

Good weekend overall.

See you next week.

Here we go again (incluiding the Feria and Carlos Ballarta)

Let's give this blogging thing another chance.... and I'm already late one day. Things can only improve, right?

I haven't blogged for the past years, and a lot of things have happened since then. But since this is (hopefully) going to be a weekly blog, and I actually did some things this week, I'll save some of the things from the past years for slower weeks.

Feria

On Friday we went to the Feria here in Juárez. It has crap tons of food stands, live performances, and mechanical rides. I don't care one bit about the performers, because it's usually popular music, which I don't really enjoy. A lot of people go for the food. I'm not one of those people. But I think most people go for the rides. Like me and my cousins.

And it's weird, cause I'm scared of big rides, specifically ones where you fall very fast, like roller coasters. But Mari forced me to go (haha, jk, I kind of wanted to go). We started the night by getting on this giant ass drop ride called the "Mega King Tower" that is over 250 feet tall. I was sweating during the whole line. I was nervous. I was regretting it. But at the same time I was a little excited. I knew if I managed to survive, I could do all the other rides no problem.

I didn't take pictures of it, but it's the one on the right.

So there I was, sitting on the seat of the tower, feet hanging, so close to crapping my pants. There was no turning back. And just like that, it began to go up, very veeeeeery slowly. I felt like it had been going up for half an hour and I turned up and we were only halfway there. Why did I turn up? Why was I on it? Why????? And then it stopped. I could see half the city from up there, it was a very nice view. I was starting to enjoy it....until, that is, the fall. I felt my stomach up in my head next to my brain. I was hanging on for dear life, certain that my face was going to smash on the ground. But it didn't, it didn't!!!! It slowed down, I survived!!!! And that's how that ride was, haha.

The next ride was a...big stick with seats on both ends that rotated spun really fast.

65mph, 150 feet tall.

This was the one I enjoyed the most. You start going up slow and then all hell breaks loose. You're just falling and rotating and at points you're not even touching your seat, cause you're upside down and rotating. Then it goes in reverse and does it all over again. Fun stuff.

Next was one that was a little similar than the previous one, but shorter, although they do leave you hanging upside down for a while. But it was milder than the previous one.

Then we got on a very crappy roller coaster with no big drop and it physically beat you up with all the shaking on the turns and shit.

Then another one, where you spin around and the seat you're on also spins up and down. My body had gotten used to all of it and it felt like nothing, but it was fun spinning around every which way :).

And that was it for the feria.

Carlos Ballarta

On Saturday we went to see a comedian called Carlos Ballarta. He has a special on Netflix. He was pretty funny. I like him.

We hung out at Diego's before and after the show. We were supposed to play a board game before the show, but we didn't finish cause we kept discussing useless stuff like we always do, and Claudia got there and we mainly started talking.

After the show we also just hung out talking about music like we often do, and the same bands we always talk about haha. But I enjoy it :).

Sunday

On Sunday me and Leonardo (my two year old son) spent all day at my parents'. It was a chill day, watching football and we watched a Netflix movie: The Babysitter. I liked it. Not kid friendly, haha.

See you next week.