Today we took the Historic Walking Tour of Santa Fe. I have been here several times and have seen a lot of the historic buildings, but I have to admit that I did not know all of the history. Our guide was a former National Parks Service employee and at one time served on the Historic Architecture Committee for Santa Fe. For those of you who have not been to Santa Fe you might not be aware that everything is built in one of two styles and covered in adobe. The feeling was that they didn't was Santa Fe to just look like every other US city.
I learned a lot on the tour and saw a lot of my old favorites. We toured Loretto Chapel. The picture above is the miracle staircase in the Chapel. It makes two 360 turns. The nuns prayed to St. Joseph for a miracle after everyone said that there was no way to build a stairway. A carpentar appeared on the ninth day of their novena and built the stairway. He disappeared before they could pay him or thank him. It was made with no metal nails.
Then we did some shopping. There was a shop that we went to three years ago and we knew that it was "just off of the plaza" but were not quite sure what direction or how far. We tried to fin it yesterday and did not make it there. I talked to Douglas yesterday and he had a pretty good recollection of where it was. We found it today, but it had been taken over by new owners. We found some of the things that we were looking for and Bob/Rob/Robert found another blanket. I got a chili pepper wreath. Now I just have to figure out how to get it home in one piece.
I learned a lot on the tour and saw a lot of my old favorites. We toured Loretto Chapel. The picture above is the miracle staircase in the Chapel. It makes two 360 turns. The nuns prayed to St. Joseph for a miracle after everyone said that there was no way to build a stairway. A carpentar appeared on the ninth day of their novena and built the stairway. He disappeared before they could pay him or thank him. It was made with no metal nails.
Then we did some shopping. There was a shop that we went to three years ago and we knew that it was "just off of the plaza" but were not quite sure what direction or how far. We tried to fin it yesterday and did not make it there. I talked to Douglas yesterday and he had a pretty good recollection of where it was. We found it today, but it had been taken over by new owners. We found some of the things that we were looking for and Bob/Rob/Robert found another blanket. I got a chili pepper wreath. Now I just have to figure out how to get it home in one piece.
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