A Really Nice Watch
We decided to go walk around the city of Santa Fe since we had heard so much about it when we went to see Newsies in Toronto in the summer. We decided to mainly stick with the Historic District when it came to walking around. There were lots of little shops and boutiques to stop in and a surprising amount of half-hidden plazas which had even more shops. During our travels and in between going into one shop or another, we stopped at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, a very fancy yet unnecessarily long and complicated name. St. Francis just so happens to be the patron of Santa Fe, which is fun. Out in the front of the church
were some statues, one depicting St. Francis himself, which is, of course, shocking, and another of the first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, who was an Algonquin-Mohawk and also so happened to be a woman. You go, Kateri. The inside of the church was very churchy and had a baptismal pool in the centre. It was a rather nice baptismal pool but I don’t think I
would ever want to use if because from what I’ve heard, being baptized as an adult is rather awkward and I’m also not a religious person so there’s that. After we finished looking around the church, we walked back to the truck to eat the lunch we brought before heading back into the city to hit a couple more landmarks. The first was the New Mexico State Capitol building. I mean the building was ok, not
exactly very exciting but they had a really cute statue out in the front with these little children playing tug-of-war. The second stop was the oldest church in the United States, which had originally started out as a Mission built by the Spanish. It was right next to Santa Fe’s oldest house, which we sidled over to once we had finished at the church. The inside
was half gift shop and half house and it all smelled very strongly of incense. The house is furnished with period furniture and is a very tiny house. It also has a face coffin and fake skeleton of a decapitated man but for the life of me, I can’t remember why it was there. I was really tempted to buy
a watch in the gift shop, made with quartz. And then I learned that it was $130 American, but 30% off, so still $130 Canadian, so I opted not to buy it. After the oldest house, we wanted to check out St. Loretto’s Miracle Staircase, a wooden staircase built without the use of nails or glue or whatever and has apparently baffle engineers for years. I didn’t think it was that baffling, whoever built it probably just used natural forces, like arches to, but it was thought to be built by Christ, of course. However, when we arrived, we discovered that the admission to see the staircase was rather expensive, so we went home instead. We took the Turquoise Trail, which is the scenic route, back towards Albuquerque and it was very scenic indeed. Peace out m8s.