Sunday, July 5, 2015

4th of July in Santa Fe!

On Friday morning we dropped Buddy off at my friend Adrienne's house for the long weekend and headed to the airport. It's always nice to gain an hour when we fly, so loading up in the Baron at 9:30/10am isn't really so bad. As soon as we arrived at the hanger, I realized I'd left my real camera at home! I remembered everything else, but was sad to think all my photos would be taken with the iPhone. The flight went smoothly and much quicker than expected, I thought. Three hours and a good nap for Olivia, Sofia and me and we were ready to land. Once on the ground, we loaded up our rental car and headed into Santa Fe and my favorite first stop: Bumble Bee's Baja Grill! The food is so good and we had a little bit of time to kill waiting for our room to be ready and for Aunt and Uncle to return from Albuquerque, where Aunt Shirl landed about the time we did in Santa Fe. After a delicious lunch we checked into our room at Las Palomas, which was very comfortable with a separate bed room and living space that included a sofa bed, where the girls would sleep. We normally are lucky to stay directly behind Aunt and Uncle in their friends' casita, but they were in town and using it. As it was, Las Palomas is only a few short blocks away and gave the girls room to spread out and was very comfortable for all of us.

After dropping off our stuff at our room, we walked over to Aunt and Uncle's casita and chatted for a while before walking over to the arroyo to stretch our legs. Normally, the arroyo is very dry and sandy, but since Santa Fe has received a good amount of rain lately, it had damp sand and showed signs of recently moving water! The girls had a ball running around and pretended they were unicorns, flapping their arms. We walked down to a concrete ledge and Sofia went beyond and explored for a few more minutes by herself before getting her shoes muddy and finding her way back up to our level. We took a few pictures, then headed back. The girls played with the bag of toys I'd packed and were really good at playing together and not getting too involved in Aunt and Uncle's house things. Sofia loved playing hangman on their chalkboard in the kitchen, using all Roman and Greek gods as her words. She's reading a book about a unicorn that gets a girl from New York to help her with the Roman/Greek gods. At some point Aunt and I headed out to do the grocery shopping for our big bbq feast tomorrow that will include bison burgers, potato salad and cole slaw. It was fun to visit the grocery stores with her and people watch (there is some serious people watching to be done in Santa Fe!)

For dinner we went a little early to Maria's, since there were no reservations to be had. We actually didn't wait long to be sat and enjoyed a delicious meal, as usual! After dinner, we said our goodnights and headed back to our place. Both girls weren't ready to sleep given their afternoon naps, so we heard a lot of giggling coming from the next room. Before long they were quiet.

On Saturday morning, we were up and ready for Aunt and Uncle to meet us at our place at 8:30am so we could walk up to the Plaza to eat pancakes! Prior to their arrival, CK took the girls to the Las Palomas main lobby to get me a cappuccino (delicious), a cup of coffee for himself, milk for Sofia and juice (cranberry) for Olivia. Olivia's juice didn't sit well with her and she ended up sort of expelling it all, even though she said she didn't feel sick. Aunt and Uncle arrived and we walked up to the Plaza and scouted out a good place to set up our four folding chairs. CK and Uncle Steve headed over to get into one of the long pancake lines to get our pancakes. They were back sooner than expected and the pancakes were delicious! They were fluffy and tasty and were a great start to the 4th of July. Unfortunately Olivia didn't eat a bite, although she also didn't seem fussy or sick, so we let it be.

We hung out in our little circle of chairs on the Plaza and the girls ran around and played until they "had to have" little white fans that were sold at a stall next to where we sat. They bought them and then proceeded to play with them like they were mermaids, unicorns, and any other kind of fantastic creature. They really had a fun time with their new fans. CK took both girls to the car show down the street while Aunt Shirl and I hung out. After a little more relaxing and listening to the patriotic music being played by the military band on the Plaza stage nearby, we packed up and headed back to Aunt and Uncle's casita. The girls played, watched little clips on my phone and hung out while we chatted, snacked and enjoyed the day.

Uncle Steve started up the bbq and soon we were enjoying delicious bison burgers, Aunt Shirl's homemade potato salad and cole slaw. We'd been snacking most of the afternoon, so weren't terribly hungry but it was all so delicious! We then loaded up into two cars and headed over to Santa Fe's high school to watch fireworks. We set up on a little hill across from the high school parking lot, where we've set up before and were then told by a police officer that we needed to clear out of the area and sit behind the railroad tracks. As we were gathering our things along with the small group of others around us, another police officer arrived to tell us that we could stay but needed to know we were in a fire danger area given the proximity to the fireworks. We set back up and enjoyed some fabulous fireworks! They seemed to go on for a long time and the grand finale was great! They really outdid themselves this year!

We headed back to our cars which were parked in a neighborhood across the street and headed home, missing nearly all of the traffic! We waved good night and put two very tired girls to bed. Sofia even told CK as we were walking to our car that she could just lay down and fall asleep right there! Olivia was cross eyed as she laid down on the bed and there were no giggles coming from their room this time! What a fun day!

Olivia checking out the Santa Fe airport

Secrets!

Beautiful wild flowers thanks to all the rain.

Our beautiful girl ready for a walk in the arroyo

Two unicorns flying through the arroyo

CK and Uncle Steve chatting about something in the arroyo

Heading down the arroyo together

The group!


Dinner at Maria's Friday night

On our way to the Plaza for some pancakes

The girls and a pancake!

Selfie!

Uncle Steve and Sofia

Family picture

The girls enjoying their new fans

CK and me

Time to enjoy some pancakes

Happy 4th of July!

Our little spot on the Plaza

The Plaza was particularly busy this year

The guys heating up the grill

Burgers on the 4th!

Our sweet girls!


Waiting for the fireworks to start


Beautiful!


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That cuddling with uncle Steve is probably turning Sofia on! Would be fun to watch her hookup with him--his rinkly old dick messing in her organs and pounding her brains out!! She would tell daddy uncle steve got laid and fucked her so good

Anonymous said...

Ew to that other comment but yea she does look like she's playing with his coc and he is probably gonna go pedo on her and finger up where she poops haha yeah