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Today is my Birthday, and while I am not looking for all of you to wish me a Happy Birthday I would of course be thrilled. After all who really doesn't like to have this special day acknowledged. My family has always been a big fan of celebrating birthdays. They should always come with some sort of celebration. Afterall, we have been able to add another year of experiences and memories. We are fortunate enough to still be with the people we love. Birthdays are meant to be celebrated. By the way I am also very proud of everyone of the 51 years of experience, friends and memories I have had - so far.

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A few days ago I posted a blog about the unusual fact that my most visited virtual tour was of the mall (see http://activerain.com/blogsview/1136956/my-most-popular-virtual-tour-the-mall-)
When I looked at the stats for all my virtual tours, I noticed something even odder: one of our Albuquerque Malls was far more popular than another with virtual visitors!
Coronado Mall, my "most visited" virtual tour, had been viewed by 1263 visitors. That was more than 50% more visits than the competing Cottonwood Mall, located on Albuquerque's West Side, which had only 712 visits.
Cottonwood Mall wasn't even the "second most popular" virtual tour; that honor belonged to the tour of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (which I would have pegged to be the top attraction, tour-wise myself.)
So what made one virtual tour more popular than the other? Until viewing the tour, non-Albuquerqueans wouldn't even have known the location of one vs. the other.
Is it something in the immediate look of the tour? Compare the two, and let me know if you notice one having better shopping "curb appeal" than the other:
Coronado Mall Tour:
Cottonwood Mall Tour:
And by the way, there's a definite pattern-- more web visitors looked at my "Albuquerque attractions and events" than looked at my property virtual tours, so maybe it's a good idea to get good community virtual tours up on the web!
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Thought it might be fun to start a new series of posts asking readers to turn detective and identify the subject and location of a photo.
Here's the first in the series. I'll give you a hint--- it was taken somewhere in New Mexico!
Two questions for you sleuths out there:
Here's the photo:

Anyone else want to play? We could start a new group for photo detectives!
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