Harvey the RV Trip: Santa Fe

We enjoyed our first day in Santa Fe. Amy and I got up and had our coffee on the balcony overlooking Santa Fe. Once we were all ready to go we headed out to walk down to the town. We started out at the St. Francis Cathedral.

Unfortunately our attempts to go to church were once again thwarted as a funeral was taking place. We did walk through the garden and stations of the cross. The sculptures were amazing (but it didn't seem right to take photos in the garden so none to post here).

Now here is the reason I'm going to Hell. We walked out of the garden and I was saying how phenomenal the sculptures were but I never knew Jesus had a six pack and such big feet (don't worry dad, Clare already slapped me for that one).

After we left St. Francis we headed to the Loretto Chapel, which has a staircase that defies logic. When built it did not have a banister and the only support was from the bottom. By all accounts, when the first person stepped on it, it should have fallen but the staircase was used for over 90 years.

The staircase today

The staircase as originally built

In the gift shop I found Flava Flav'a Rosary Beads

Ann, we found you a gringo

And funnily enough he was sitting across from this store:

We went up to Thunderbird Bar and Gri for lunch. It is on a balcony overlooking the square.

As we were having lunch some of the men from the USS Santa Fe came through to polish the memorial. They were there for over an hour.

The after photo

We walked along the Palace of the Governors which is over 400 years old and people have always sold goods along outside.

Inside is a museum which Amy and I went through. Now here are some reasons why people who had margaritas for lunch should not be allowed in a museum

Hey Candi, what kind of wagons are these?!?

This is a wafer iron used by priests; not a waffle iron

Who knew they bedazzled guns in the old days

No Amy, that's not a toilet; it's a mortar and pestle.

It looks like this horse is saying Heeeyyy!

OK we did learn a lot about New Mexico history in the museum but we had fun too. They also had these places we had to put our faces in

We call this the Fred Flinstone truck

And on the way out a guard said to Amy 'you're now Billy the Kid'

We walked around a bit more. There's a lot of art and such in town.

A reindeer doing a rain dance

Where else could you spend $5 for a nickel?

We walked back up to the condo and decided to walk over to Fort Marcy to watch the sunset. Apparently Clare's family helped put up the Cross of the Martyrs.