Santa Fe, New Mexico

For our 25th Wedding Anniversary my hubby and I booked a trip to Santa Fe!

This was our first visit to New Mexico, so we were both very excited.

I think it turned out to be more of my vacation than his... We do both love art galleries, but after 4 days of it, he was a little done and I could have kept going and going, like the energizer bunny. Yes, I love art galleries. I also loved the architect of Santa Fe.

Any one that knows me very well, knows that I LOVE purses. We were walking by and, of course, this window display caught my eye. All the purses in the window are made from gum wrappers. The store had very unusual purses and I couldn't resist the martini shaped purse on the end of the middle shelf :) It's a Sono Purse. For those other purse lovers out there.








The number one tourist attraction, besides the art galleries, is the Lorretto Church built in 1873. Here is a picture of the Miraculous staircase. Per it's website: Two mysteries surround the spiral staircase in the Loretto Chapel: the identity of its builder and the physics of its construction. The staircase has two 360 degree turns and has no visible means of support. Also, it is said that the staircase was built without nails—only wooden pegs. Here is the link for more info: http://www.lorettochapel.com/


We also came across this store that displayed old dinosaur fossils. We must have spent 30 minutes looking around with our mouths wide open in awe. They had quite a selection of amazing fossils still in tact. Very, very cool.

I know you can't read it, but it states under the fossil, 30 million years old with a price tag of $1195.



We were drinking our coffee in Starbucks and my sweetie looked so handsome with the natural window light that I secretly pulled out my camera and caught this image. I wouldn't stop photographing him after that. Poor guy, it's hard to be married to a photographer! lol He is such a great husband, he never once said a word as I was stopping every couple of minutes to photograph something! Like the chili peppers hanging!

We had a wonderful time. I love long weekend getaways. Four days was plenty of time. On our last day we left early and drove through old town Albuquerque. I told Russell that we would do whatever he would like, since the whole trip turned out to by my vacation. He chose the Atomic Museum. It was really quite interesting.