Saturday in Santa Fe

Friday morning, 2 September, we left Peoria and headed up the 17 to Flagstaff and the 40 east. In Albuquerque we caught the 25 north to Santa Fe where we visited Rob, Anna, y familia at their new home at the end of Caminito del Sol. Friday evening we had supper in town and a tour of the historic area by car. On Saturday, we took a short hike in the foothills and afterwards when all were ready we went to town where a crafts fair from Zozobra, the original Burning Man, the night before was still in full swing. That afternoon we went to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. In the evening the adults had supper at a Brazilian restaurant and the kids had sushi.

 Interstate 40 in beautiful New Mexico

 The new casa

 Santa Fe Bite for supper

 Short hike

 Home again, home again...

 Hastings in the hall

 Is there a computer in the house?

 Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

 Completed 1869

 This is a beautiful form of prayer

 Romanesque Revival style

 Troops at the door

 The Loretto Chapel, 1872

 Gothic Revival Chapel for the Sisters of Loretto

 Formerly a Catholic church, now a wedding chapel

 The Sisters of Loretto credited St. Joseph with the construction

of the "Miraculous Stair," built without center support

 San Miguel Mission, c.1610

 Claimed to be the oldest church in the US

 The reredos features a statue of San Miguel

De Vargas Street House claims the to be the "Oldest House" because

its foundations date back to a pueblo from c. 1200 CE

 

Parts of the visible house date back to the time of 

La Villa Real de Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asisi, founded in 1608

The house sits next to San Miguel Mission on 

the Old Santa Fe Trail

 "I'll sit here while you look"

 Portal on San Francisco Street across from the Plaza

 Water is best

 Palace of the Governors

 Shopping in the portal of the Palace of the Governors

 View up San Francisco Street to St. Francis of Assisi: the 

Plaza was full of Zozobra vendors

 Waiting and waiting and waiting for their lunch

Green chile relleno burrito: yummy 

SUPER-spicy grilled chicken

 He survived just fine

 Fry bread with honey

 Shopping selfie: this is how I like to shop

 View from the Palace Avenue portal across Cathedral Park

 Waiting for the grandparents

 The crew at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on Museum Hill

 Remembering Uncle Tony's rugs and blankets

 Back at the house, this ice machine is wizard!

The beautiful evening view from the family room

It was great to see that the Hastings are getting settled. Santa Fe is a fun place and it was good to be back after many years.

There is more, but that's all for now.

OXO

D.

Arizona in the Summer

We vowed never to go Arizona in the summer because it is HOT and really awful. But we made an exception for Nancy Geddicks Boynton's funeral. The funeral was emotional, but it was good to see family and spend a little time with them.

 Yummy tacos with the kiddos

 Cheap lunch from Wendy's

The next photo has a backstory. When Kris was growing up in Mesa, one of her brother Chip's friends was Don Stapley. She found him full of himself and massively condescending to her personally. She thought he was Eddy Haskell (Leave it to Beaver) incarnate. In Mesa we saw campaign signs for him on almost every corner and Kris was sick at the thought of him holding public office. Headed back to Peoria one evening we saw these signs on most corners. Kris was overcome with joy when she saw that someone had called him out.

 Warning: Unethical career politician!

 Facetime with Evy

 Custard at Freddy's for dessert

 Lunch at the Cheesecake Factory was amazingly good

 Maren got to spend the day with the elderly

 We enjoyed Florence Foster Jenkins

 A theater filled with snowbirds and us

 Nancy's viewing

 Comfy seats

At the Mesa City Cemetery

 Trevor, Blake, Rachel, Lexi, Mark, and Jocelyn

 Grandmother and the siblings

 A delicious dinner at the Rogue Tomato to celebrate Finn being
selected to join the Junior National Honor Society and the
 Student Council at Candeo Middle School

 I have to admit that Arizona evenings are lovely

Goodbye dears

From Arizona we headed to New Mexico to see the Hastings, so there is more to come. This is all for now.  

OXO

D.