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.