Spring Break Trip Day 7

The day started with a long drive day heading toward Santa Fe, NM as the mid point to get back to Colorado.  The drive was quite nice, but still tiring to drive 6-7 hours in a single chunk.

Once in Santa Fe, we had to get into the local Mexican food scene.  We searched for the most amazing place and landed on a place called The Shed.  Being ignorant tourists, we called midday when they opened to see if they took reservations.  Apparently they do...starting up to three months before you want to eat dinner there because they are so packed.  They said we could come by and put our names on the list if we wanted, so we did that at around 4 pm for hopefully what was a 7 pm dinner.   After coming back around 6 pm, we waited...and waited...and waited.  Finally around 8:30 pm we were finally seated in a small corner and treated to some amazing James Beard winning Mexican food.  This is a picture of the Red and Green smothered Blue Corn Chicken Enchiladas that were spicy enough to almost make you cry.  I believe they were very tasty, though my tongue was mostly soaking in ice water after every bite.  Great place but be sure to make reservations months in advance!

While we waited for food we found some pretty cool local shops to explore.  This is the picture of a giant geode outside of one jewelry shop.  Gavin certainly loved it, but we had to leave it at the store because it wouldn't quite fit in our minivan for the trip home.