Thursday, April 3, 2008

Santa Fe Revisited


Monday we left ABQ and headed to Santa Fe again. Before leaving we took pictures of the kids Favorite Easter eggs before eating them for breakfast, in case you're wondering what those pictures are. Once in Santa Fe, we headed for the plaza. The kids enjoyed the Daffy Duck bench outside the Chuck Jones Gallery. We enjoyed the Georgia O'Keeffe museum. The kids used Daddy's sketchbook to try their hand at drawing a buffalo skull. Tuesday morning we went to Loretto Chapel to see the famous spiral staircase. We also enjoyed the Dancing St. Francis sculpture outside the Cathedral down the street. Natalie and I visited the Palace of the Governors which she had read about in her Josefina books. I stuck my head in the new state capitol building and enjoyed all of the amazing art, esp. the new art quilt exhibit. Then we all headed to the Museum Hill to take in the amazing International Folk Art Museum and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Both places had really fun children's areas and amazing exhibits. Note the fun adobe playhouse in the pictures. Then we found a playground for the kids in a remote area east of town near the Santa Fe National Forest. Even this remote play area had a St. Francis statue looking across the mountain toward a cemetery on the hill.