La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís

With Rob and Anna off to Ireland, we settled into Santa Fe for a week with the extremely capable Hastings children. All we really had to do was some shopping, cooking, schedule juggling, and lots of shuttling -- Anna's Leaf was so fun to zip around in. Being there was great fun and we enjoyed it thoroughly. Clara, Kris, and I started off with a Saturday visit to Albuquerque for some groceries at the Kirkland Temple, some birthday shopping at ABQ Uptown, and a quick Better-Call-Saul driving tour. There were some fine morning walks and several trips to Clafoutis, the killer patisserie, for unhealthy lunches on several days.

 A walk up the arroyo

 The brush is all abloom

 The beautiful view at sunset from the Hastings' rear windows

 

 Some early birthday gifts: well done Rob

 Headed to Ireland

 It's not Ireland, but a trip down I-25 to Albuquerque is fun

 Lunch at the Kirkland Temple with the girlies

 ABQ Uptown

 With the nicest Target I've ever seen

 A bit of birthday shopping

 Mike's parking booth from Better Call Saul

 Ditto

 The grounding entrance to Chuck's house

 Chuck's house

 Ditto

 Master baker plying her craft

 Morning walk into town: Loretto Chapel

 Zapattas and vigas on the portal of the 

Palace of the Governors

 Portal of the Casa Sena

 Interior plaza of the Casa Sena

 Casa Sena

 The cathedral bells were ringing non-stop on Sunday morning

 Inside there was a baptism going on

 About 5 years ago in Peoria, Finn and I found the idea of a

sanitary sewer pretty funny -- turns out that there are

sanitary sewers everywhere

 French pastries at Clafoutis

Religieuse au café: heaven!

There is lots that I love about Santa Fe, and the rest of our week there will follow in the next post.

OXO

D.