Anyway, there we were in Santa Fe unsure of what to do. We started out taking a walk along the creek that lead to the downtown area. The creek was freezing cold, but ever the water- lover I had to get at least a small portion of my body in the creek. After walking a little ways I discovered a pile of cut flowers stuck in the current. There was a rose, a daisy and some other unidentified flowers. Naturally, I pictured a man bringing his lover flowers only to discover that she was with someone else. To calm his broken heart the man walked along the creek and at the very end of it dramatically tossed the bouquet into the fast moving water. Anyway, heres a picture of me with the flowers telling the story to Jack:
When we reached the downtown area we decided to stop in a religious articles store. Neither Jack nor I is the least bit religious, but it looked like a cool store so we decided to stop in. Connie, the store's owner, was a small delicate hispanic woman with deep smile lines. She began to ask us questions about who we were and where we were from and what were doing there. After we answered here questions she handed us Saint Dominic Pendants and invited us into her house which was connected to the store. She seemed nice enough, so Jack and I followed her back where she showed us her shrine to the Sacred Heart of so and so. This Sacred Heart of so and so was so special that her family had carved out part of the wall to house her and painted the faces of Connie and her brothers and sisters around the edge. It was quite beautiful.
and heres Connie!
She then recommended that we eat at Guadalupe's. Look how happy that made Jack:
Though it was beyond hot, we decided to walk downtown for a bit longer. This is what it looked like:
there were lots of these:
and these:
and we even saw Sarah and Vineet hanging out:
The main square was a little disconcerting for us. There was a line of Native Americans selling all kinds of jewelry. Them white folks walked down the line picking and choosing what they deemed beautiful enough to have in their collection while the Natives fanned themselves and waited silently for someone to buy their beautiful handiwork. It was very upsetting, almost as upsetting as something that you will learn about that happened in Taos.
Besides all of that Santa Fe was pretty wonderful. The people, the skies, the flowers and the food. It was just a bit too warm for us.
Next on the list was Taos.
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