Christmas Dinner in Old Town

Betty and I always like to go out one night during the Christmas season for a nice dinner. It's always fun to eat a good meal together and we enjoy seeing all the Christmas lights as we drive to and from the restaurant.

This year we decided to go to Old Town, Albuquerque for our dinner and we chose a place called Church Street Cafe. It's behind San Felipe de Neri Church. The cafe is in is the oldest building in Old Town.

It was nicely decorated for the holidays. Betty had a vegetarian fajita made with Portabello mushrooms and I had a steak fajita. Both were delicious.

Here are some pictures from last night.


Today is December 13 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Mary Todd Lincoln (wife of Abraham, Lincoln), Alvin York, (WWI hero from Tennessee), Taylor Swift (country singer), Jamie Foxx (comedian), Ted Nugent (rock guitarist), Christopher Plummer (actor, "Sound of Music"), Dick Van Dyke (comedian, "The Dick Van Dyke Show"), and Archie Moore (professional boxer).

On this day in 1577 Sir Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey that would take him around the world. In 1623 trial by jury was established at the Plymouth Colony. In 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand. The Tazmanian Sea is named after him. In 1809 the first abdominal surgical procedure was performed - in Danville, Kentucky. The patient was Jane Todd Crawford and the operation was performed without the aid of an anesthetic. In 1949 the American League voted down a proposal to revive the spitball, which had been outlawed since 1920. And in 2003 former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.