Balloons and hospitals

Early balloons

This update didn't turn out as I expected. Yesterday's sight was the Albuquerque Balloon Museum. The museum has a large collection of items telling the history of hot air balloons both globally and locally. Lot of the history narrative was written in humorous way or included quirky details. The exhibit covered also military (blimps and barrage balloons) and scientific use of balloons. Since Albuquerque hosts the world's biggest annual balloon event, The Balloon Fiesta, it was exhibited prominently too. Hands down the most interesting museum I've seen so far.

For dinner it was my first American buffet experience at Golden Corral. It was in the news on the other day that an average tourist to the US puts on 3 kilos weight during their holiday. After eating at the GC I have no doubt. I mean the food wasn't spectacular (apart from the fresh prepared steak and the desserts but it was worth the money for variety.

During yesterday I started feeling irritation to my right eye and it worsened through the night. In the morning I had to make a decision and called my insurance company to verify that I can indeed go to a doctor and be covered. So after getting approved we headed out to the indicated medical facility that turned out to be a urgent care unit in a local hospital. After finally getting registered (by settling billing issues) and triaged I went to the waiting area. Maybe after 30-45 minutes I was directed to another waiting room. About 5 minutes later a doctor checked my eye and diagnosed conjunctivitis. I've never had one before and I really don't want another. After I was done it was time to go pick up the eye drop prescription. Which went quite smoothly. As did applying the drops.

Then I called my insurance company to let them handle the billing issue I got faced with. Which is hopefully now taken care of.n the evening we had another KFC dinner. It was again very delicious.