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Published: July 18th 2009
Today was a totally rocking day! We ate burritos at this restaurant in Santa Fe called the Bumble Bee's Baja Grill. Mom says "I had a "naked" burrito with asparagus and it was scrumptious!" My burrito had black beans, rice, pico de gallo, and cheese in it. I would give it 9.5 on my official Burrito Scale. I took off .5 because it was a little "too spicy!" It was, like all of the past burritos, perfect in every way imaginable! The restaurant looked really cool inside because there were all of these bumble bee pinatas hanging from the ceiling!
We went to the Palace of the Governors museum. It is a "monumental adobe structure that housed the residence and offices of governors from its construction ca. 1609 until it became the state history museum in 1909." We visited "the museum to learn about 400 years of life in New Mexico in exhibitions and period rooms." We learned about how the Pueblo Indians of this area were first free, then were ruled by Spain, then were free, then were ruled by Spain again, then were ruled by Mexico, then were ruled by the US. New Mexico was actually part of
the Confederacy for about 60 days during the Civil War. Did you know that New Mexico wasn't named after Mexico? New Mexico has been around longer than Mexico has been a country! The Spanish had gone down and had renamed the Aztecs' capital Mexico City. Then they started to travel up north to find "New Mexican cities"! While we were there, we saw a real carriage from around the 1840s. It wasn't a replica at all. That was a really fun museum. We also went to the Georgia O' Keefe Museum, where we saw a fair few of her actual paintings. There wasn't any hands-on things, but it was pretty nice to go there.
The house that we are staying at is very beautiful. The person who lives here made it basically by herself with adobe. She is a Quaker artist and doctor. The view is also very lovely. There is a big mountain right near the house. In the backyard is a desert garden that is very nice, with plants that are surrounded by little fences to keep out the animals.
We also saw two natural swimming pools on our way to Santa Fe. They were really
cool. One of them, The Blue Pool, in Santa Rosa, is 81 feet deep! It wasn't fun when mom slipped on the stairs and badly bruised her foot, though!
Today was super fun!
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There are weeks, and then there are weeks...
2300 miles, several awesome burritos, torrential rainstorms, many beautiful and beautifully varied sights, beautiful landscapes and sounds, friendly people everywhere you stop. Wow, what a first week!