{"id":3501,"date":"2016-09-17T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2016-09-17T23:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T03:43:46","slug":"new-mexico-and-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3501","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico and cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

We successfully had a week-long vacation to New Mexico, which included a wedding at the end.
\nWe started by flying into Albuquerque and immediately leaving it, for Santa Fe. We stayed in a small hotel (only about 12 total rooms?) that was really nice and central… around 10 minutes walking distance from the town’s plaza.
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We did a lot of exploring around the city, and also did a day trip to Taos to see the pueblo and the Rio Grande gorge.
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Then it was off to Albuquerque where we had museums, views and hiking at Sandia peak and more hiking.
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Oh, and also a wedding.
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The hotel there was the Marriott pyramid hotel, which was really only pyramidal from the front. But it had a awesome view inside, including through the glass backs of the elevators.
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Photos of everything can be found at photos<\/a>.
\nIt was overall a nice trip, and it was good to relax and have time away from work, but I’m very glad to be done with travel for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

In other, unrelated fun things… I made my largest (in terms of dollars) order of cards yet. A large amount of the cost came from a single item: a case of 10,000 card sleeves ($50)… but now I’m set for life, including all of the deckbuilder games I keep getting. (My only regret here is that I didn’t have the box of sleeves for the Apex deckbuilding game, for which I bought like 8 or 9 packs of sleeves alone.)
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The order included a box of LoTR CCG Black Rider starter decks, a box of L5R Seeds of Decay starter decks, a box Megaman TCG Grand Prix starter decks, six boxes of Megaman TCG Grand Prix and Grave booster packs, a box of Star Wars TCG starter decks, a box of Young Jedi starter decks, a box of VS System Fantastic Four starter decks, a Tribbles CCG box, a WoW TCG Icecrown Citadel raid deck, and the box of sleeves. The raid deck I think will be a reasonable thing to take to games night as well, since it plays four (in a 3 vs 1 format).<\/p>\n

The order also included two board games, one of which was Machi Koro, and was the entire impetus for the order in the first place. It was on sale for $25 (deluxe version), but the shipping for it by itself was already $14. Given the rarity of my orders from TCG specialty stores, I took advantage of the situation to get a bunch of other stuff I’d had my eye on. Overall shipping on the ~48 pound box was only $20, so it was definitely worthwhile in that respect.<\/p>\n

Now to find people to play more defunct TCGs with me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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