We drove all night and arrived in Santa Fe early this morning. The drive was a little tiring, but overall not too bad. One of the great things about driving at night was once we crossed into Arizona there were so many stars, it was beautiful! We were able to check into our hotel early and then we headed out to find some breakfast. We ended up eating at a little family owned cafe and had some great breakfast burritos.
There were two main reasons we decided to stop in Santa Fe- Lauren wanted to visit the Georgia O'Keeffe museum and I wanted to take a tour of the Santa Fe opera. When we arrived, I looked online to find the tour times, but it turns out that this week there are no tours.... Quite a bummer. So after breakfast we walked to the museum only to find that they were in the middle of preparing for the summer show and they were closed...but we were able to go on a tour of the Georgia O'Keeffe research center which had a lot of her supplies, color samples, and sketches. There was one of her paintings there so it wasn't a total bust, and it was interesting to see some of the details of her process. We were also the youngest people on the tour by about 20yrs...
Before the tour we wandered around and walked through the St. Francis Cathedral which was built 400 years ago. Lauren has been taking tons of photos, this is what most of our walk consisted of...
After the research center tour we came back to the hotel and planned on taking a short nap and then heading back out to see some more of the museums and other city sights. Three hours later we woke up having slept through all the alarms we set. We both really needed to catch up on sleep after the drive, especially considering tomorrow is our longest drive of the trip.
We went to dinner at a place my friend Jessica (who used to live in Santa Fe) suggested. It was amazing- we had "sopapillas" which are light, melt-in-your-mouth thin pastries kind of like tortillas which are served with butter and honey as a starter (we both agreed that we could have just eaten those for dinner). For our main course we had stuffed sopapillas, which were also great.
We're getting ready for our big drive tomorrow, the adventure continues!
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