Day 2 Santa Fe

Slept in a little to make up for yesterday's early morning wake up call. We decided to spend the day around Santa Fe. There is so much to see.

Where do I even begin...just jump I guess.

This is the courtyard where the restaurant is that we made a reservation for lunch. Cute!

Here is a small vendor set inside another small courtyard. The displays are so colorful! Everything is fired clay and painted.

Native Americans set up 'booths' to sell their wares along side the front of the Palace of the Goverors. Such beautiful things. Lots of turquoise and silver.

Artwork is everywhere. No room left to sit next this big guy!

We went to the Georgia O'Keefe Art Gallery. This is one of her paintings which has been made into a Forever stamp by the USPostal Service.

This is a Burro from Burro Alley. Supposedly firewood from the mountains were packed onto burros and unloaded in this alley for sale in the 1700's and later. They commemorate this with two burro statues and a plaque and road sign.

Allen and Carolyn in front of the cafe on the corner.

This is Loretto Chapel where the Miraculous Staircase is. The story goes when the chapel was new in 1873 there was no way for people to get to the loft other than climb a ladder. When women started singing in the choir, a staircase was needed but thee was no money. At the last moment a stranger came in and built this staircase by himself. It has not supports at all and basically is suspended. Supposedly engineers to this day do not know how he did it. The staircase is beautiful!

If you look close, the sides of the staircase do not touch the wall.

This is the front of Loretta Chapel.

This is San Miguel's Mission, the oldest church in the continental U.S. built in 1610.

Here is a beam located inside San Miguel.

This is the oldest house built around the same time. Up for sale even!

Time for lunch in that courtyard. I had cheese enchiladas made with blue corn tortillas and spicy red chile sauce. Black beans and rice. The beans were delicious as were the enchiladas. I had to eat a little bit of their blue cornbread to calm the fire a little...

Lemon Creme Brûlée. Wonderful.

Here's the crew: Jacky, Lee, John, Allen, and Carolyn.

After a little more shopping, we went to the glass maker. It was so interesting...and exciting! We got to watch him make a piece from beginning to end. Watch with me!

The final result was a glass plate!

Last activity for the day...drinks and piano bar at Vanessie. It was great! Doug Montgomery was the first piano player. He studied at Juilliard School of Music and has won many awards. Bill Worrell who has an art gallery in town as well as is a country western singer was there and joined Doug for a round of "El Paso".

The second player was almost as good and we enjoyed 4 hours of wonderful sing along golden oldies music!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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