The Lee Family: Santa Fe with Aunt and Uncle

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Santa Fe with Aunt and Uncle

On Saturday morning, July 2nd we flew out to Santa Fe to spend the long weekend of 4th of July with Aunt and Uncle. We went back and forth in our decision to go since there was a big fire in Los Alamos that created a lot of smoke and soot, but we finally decided to head out. We were really happy we went since we had a great long weekend with Aunt and Uncle and did a lot in that short time! After we arrived and had lunch, we headed out to Los Golondrinas Hacienda for a festival that included wine tasting (wines from New Mexico, who knew?!), a great live band, stands of crafts to buy, taco and smoothie stands, and the Hacienda was fun to explore too. We spent a few hours checking out all of the stands, listening and/or dancing to the music, walking around the Hacienda and really enjoyed the festival.

After, we returned to the casita to relax and nap before Uncle Steve fired up the BBQ and we enjoyed a delicious meal of corn, salad and grilled salmon. We then headed out to Sofia's first movie in a theater to see "Buck" which was a Sundance film that follows the horse trainer Buck Brannaman and his incredible ability to train and communicate with horses. He was a big inspiration of the movie "The Horse Whisperer" and is a real life "whisperer." It was a fascinating film and Sofia was great until the "question and answer" portion with the executive producer (who lives in Santa Fe) at the end of the movie. She sat through the movie, ate her popcorn, and aside from a few questions didn't move around much. After the movie, she was ready to sit on Uncle Steve's lap and kept moving around from lap to lap, but stayed quiet and everyone around us told us at the end how fantastic she was during the movie! She was the only child there, so we were pleased that she enjoyed it and was so patient. After, we headed home and went to bed after a very full and fun day!

Uncle Steve and Sofia dancing away