Always Aubs: The Land of Enchantment

After Colorado, we continued our journey down to New Mexico to introduce Dave to the enchantment of my home state. We took him all over the northern half of the state, and here's some of the gorgeous sites we saw...

A view of North Mesa in Los Alamos, the breathtaking hilltop town where I spent my high school years. Go Hilltoppers! LOL, I do say we have an original mascot :) Here's Dave looking strapping in the green and gold :)

He's such a coner...Like me!

Experiencing the fresh guacamole at Gabriel's in the town of Pojoaque. They make it right at your tableside...and it's the best you've ever had!

Near the Tesuque Reservation, there's a glassworks and metalwork foundry where we got to explore all of the cool and...interesting...sculptures.

The five orange poles you see in the back of me and Aslan here are actually a very modern and expensive work of art that apparently people would buy...? If they had $25000 to spare. That's right folks, $5000 per pole in this "Sequence"...I could make the same thing out of Play-do for 50 cents. I think I'll stick with that. But these three little pigs here were tempting, only a few thousand dollars for a welcoming garden sculpture. "Truffles" the pig in the plaza pictured with Dave, however, is very valuable...neither of us would ever be able to afford such a "stunning" work of art :) Some Santa Feans must though...no wonder they call it "The City Different"!

We do have some gorgeous art here, however, being totally serious. The Southwestern style, even found in the arcitecture, is unique and special to this enchanted land...

Our house in Santa Fe!

Fun times on the Plaza

We got to visit with my Nana in Albuquerque, and she took us by the Cancer Center at UNM Hospital, where they have a plaque in her honor

While in ABQ, we also got to do baptisms for some of my relatives in the temple, and we went around the whole place taking pictures and goofing around. Couldn't quite get a good one of us jumping off the ledge of the fountain...oh well, we got a lot of funny lookin action shots...