A Day in Santa Fe

This is the Mormon Battalion Monument.  It was erected to mark the trail where the Mormon Battalion soldiers marched on their way to San Diego.  It's just off the side of I-25 on the way to Santa Fe from Albuquerque.   I don't know why the picture went here instead of below my opening paragraph, but it did, so here it will stay.

We really didn't go anywhere for a vacation this year.  Schedules just didn't work out that way this year.  But Susan wanted to go spend a day in Santa Fe.  She had only been there once, (when the Dad had an interview with Governor Richardson) and she really didn't remember much about it.  We asked Chelsea to come along, and that was fun.  Brian wasn't finished with school yet, so he couldn't go.

This is a picture just outside the Round House.  (The NM State Capitol Building.)

Here we are inside either the State Senate or the State House Chambers.  They look the same to me.

We walked around the Plaza for awhile.  We came upon the Clan Tynker Circus doing a free performance under the Gazebo there.  It was fun.  It was also hot, and we were sitting out in the sun, so we didn't stay to the very end.  (Besides that, we were getting sunburned and hungry.

The pictures got all out of order.  This was in the Round House.  This is the one thing about Santa Fe that Susan could remember from her last visit to Santa Fe.

This is the miraculous stairway inside the Church of San Loretto.  If you want to know the story of the staircase, read about it in Chelsea's blog,

 

This is the Mission of San Miguel.  It is the oldest church in the United States that is still in use for Sunday Mass.

We ate lunch at Tia Sophia's.  It is a New Mexican food restaurant.  It was delicious, and we were hungry!

Hmmmm.  What to order.