Santa Fe, New Mexico

Today could not have been a more perfect day. On vacations, our family has good and bad days. Today was the perfect day. The weather was fantastic and our most excellent hosts, cousin Rudy and Alicia took us to some of the great sights of Santa Fe. We ventured out to Pecos, which has ruins from both the pueblo indians and the early missions from the spanish explorers. Keegan was fascinated by the mission since she had just finish study it in 4th grade history. The walking trail was great as we walked around the early indian ruins and then we got to walk around the last remains of the mission. (On a really cool site note, this was also the site of the most western part of the CIVIL WAR! Yeah, you heard me, the north and south fought a major battle here as the south was trying to gain access to California and the north was trying to prevent it. The north prevailed but both sides took heavy losses. Told you it was a cool site note.)

After the hike, we ventured to one of Guy Fieri's diners, Harry Roadhouse. Talk about an great diner. We sat on the patio and the weather was perfect and the food was even better. I had smoked ribs and cowboy beans (doesn't the name cowboy beans just sound good to eat ) and Kim had smoked chicken burrito drowning in red and green chile sauce. Plus, they had homemade pie and I love coconut cream pie so I had to have a slice. Unbelievable. Truly worthy of being on Guy TV show.

We finished off the day at the Folk Art museum and then a great dinner at a place called Counter Culture. Just bummed we are leaving tomorrow. We are off to Oklahoma City, to see the memorial and catch a minor league baseball game.

The rest of the trip has a lot of work to do to match todays events,

MZ