New Mexico
We have Brett home in Denver this week for a week of mid semester break for Thanksgiving. So we decided to go south to the state New Mexico for the weekend. This will be the fifth state that Brett and I have begun to explore (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California and now NM). We couldn't probably have picked worse weather for it. Santa Fe gets 25" snow per year and they got 9" of that on our first night in town!!!!
We should have known when we crossed the border and froze our butts off getting this picture, that we were in for an 'interesting' weekend! And it is a very boring five and a half hour drive to Santa Fe:
They hang their traffic lights sideways!! I would have thought that within 1 country we could have some uniformity of things like that LOL.
We arrived in town late Saturday afternoon and this is what we woke up to after our first night in the motel:
So what did we do whilst we waited for the tourist district to wake up - we went to Walmart and had some fun:
I decided cammo isn't really Matt's perfect beanie color/style:
So Brett & I decided a grandpa hat suited him better:
In Denver it is usually business as usual if we get this much snow because the roads are plowed, but obviously Santa fe didn't have enough plows, so we traversed roads like these:
We found the french bakery for breakfast. They make their own puff pastry with real butter daily YUM!
We wandered around town for a few hours because the museum I desperately wanted to see was closed due to inclement weather GRRR!
The Loretto church was absolutely gorgeous:
Notice the spiral staircase doesn't have a supporting pole down the centre!! This thing is amazing and is known as the miracle staircase:
We also saw this church built in 1610!!!!!
I was amazed that only a few short hours from Denver the architecture of the buildings is so different. Most buildings are built in the adobe style:
This natural rendered look is even emulated in the newer buildings around Santa Fe:
So Santa Fe was definitely interesting and we will definitely go there again some time.
We should have known when we crossed the border and froze our butts off getting this picture, that we were in for an 'interesting' weekend! And it is a very boring five and a half hour drive to Santa Fe:
They hang their traffic lights sideways!! I would have thought that within 1 country we could have some uniformity of things like that LOL.
We arrived in town late Saturday afternoon and this is what we woke up to after our first night in the motel:
So what did we do whilst we waited for the tourist district to wake up - we went to Walmart and had some fun:
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| Yes that is a real taxidermied deer above him! |
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| No Matt is not that overweight, he just has lots of layers on LOL |
In Denver it is usually business as usual if we get this much snow because the roads are plowed, but obviously Santa fe didn't have enough plows, so we traversed roads like these:
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| Yes we drove on that! |
We wandered around town for a few hours because the museum I desperately wanted to see was closed due to inclement weather GRRR!
The Loretto church was absolutely gorgeous:
Notice the spiral staircase doesn't have a supporting pole down the centre!! This thing is amazing and is known as the miracle staircase:
We also saw this church built in 1610!!!!!
I was amazed that only a few short hours from Denver the architecture of the buildings is so different. Most buildings are built in the adobe style:
This natural rendered look is even emulated in the newer buildings around Santa Fe:
So Santa Fe was definitely interesting and we will definitely go there again some time.
Sounds like you had a good time despite the snow! Glad you made it home safely!
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