Question: Where can you go to marvel at clay houses, eat spicy chocolate and die a long drawn hot death from heat exhaustion?
Answer: New Mexico, baby.
Mark and I went to the great southwest this past weekend and other than suffering from several heat strokes, it was quite enjoyable.
We started off in Albuquerque, drove up to Santa Fe through the charming little town of Jemez Springs and near the once super top secret government town of Los Alamos. After a quick visit to Santa Fe, it started raining crocodile tear sized rain drops, so we quickly hopped in our kick ass rental Kia and drove back to Albuquerque. Some of things we saw along the way:
What we did for the remainder of the weekend: Contra Dancing, Diner eating, Thrift Shopping, Cat Petting, Eating Mexican Food, etc.
Food: Apparently, the New Mexican question is "Red or Green"? This is referring to the type of chile pepper. I chose green and never looked back. Sopapillas with honey, delicious spicy chocolate, jam empanadas. Oh. My. Gosh. I gained like 10 pounds this weekend.
We also went to the Very Large Array in central New Mexico. Satellites every where, I think there were 27 total. It was very 1950's sci-fi futuristic, except we were there experiencing it, in the future.
4 comments:
Is this the Mark I know? It sounds like you had a great trip and those shoes are very adorable!
Thanks! No, it's a different Mark. I don't know why I keep hanging around all these Marks. My friends think I'm just dating the same guy the entire time. It's ruining my reputation.
I was just hoping it wasn't him because you were trying to get rid of him...so I'm relieved it was a different Mark. Was he hairy? Cause you do spend time with hairy men and men with the same name. :)
I can't believe you didn't come visit me. I live just one state away. Rude!!
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