We are now in Santa Fe, NM with family, where we'll be for the next couple of days.

After a disappointing start (the anticipated pancake breakfast at the campground was canceled,) we had a nice quick 5 hour drive from Cortez, which seemed much shorter than we anticipated.

We're here visiting today, enjoying some more down time, and catching up on video uploads and blog entries, plus some emails here and there. I'm also working on updating our reservations for all the changes the boss said she wanted.

Monday Update:

We had planned on visiting a living history type museum, but as sometimes happens, the museum was closed on Monday. No worries, we made other plans and went and visited downtown Santa Fe.

We visited several churches, the heavily Spanish influenced community is largely Catholic, and the Catholic churches have played a major role throughout this city's history.

Included in the churches we visited was one that included the "Miracle Staircase" a staircase that is self-supporting, a true carpentry and engineering marvel. Many believe that St. Joseph (Jesus' Earthly father) answered a specific prayer and came in the flesh to build the staircase hundreds of years ago. It was amazing.

We had a wonderfully relaxing lunch, and also visited the local town square. Overall, we got a great overview of Santa Fe, despite the change in plans, and enjoyed a great day.

Michelle's Aunt Sandy and Uncle Laurie spoiled all of us terribly, and we really enjoyed our time at their home. Beware though...Laurie yields a mad tree saw...and did a little trimming to the trees to accommodate our trailer. We had an awesome time!

Faith's blog:
Today was fun. First we had a treasure hunt, then we saw the oldest church. We also got to go on the Old Santa Fe Trail. Well, we actually walked to the end of it. It was all cool. The treasure hunt was at my great aunt and uncle’s house. We each found 7 things. It was a great day.

Kenzie's blog:
Here we got to see the oldest church and some really cool shops. I have never seen adobe houses! We had fun with our great aunt Sandy and great uncle Laurie. They put together a treasure hunt for us. That was fun. They are really nice!

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