Rachael and I were commenting the other day about how blessed we have been this year to be able to travel so much. Especially since we have been able to bring our baby daughter along with us on these trips. Our weekends have been very busy this month, but it has been amazing to see so many awesome places and enjoy all of them with Brianna. However, it is a bit of a shame that she won't remember these trips because she is so young, but I guess that gives us an excuse to go back again with our whole family when the kids are older. :-)
This past weekend we took a trip to Santa Fe, NM to stay at the Inn and Spa at Loretto, one of the sister properties of the hotel that Rachael works for. Her team will be taking overflow reservations for this resort, so we were invited to experience a stay at the hotel and eat at the lovely new outdoor restaurant. We also took the chance to do some site-seeing Sunday afternoon around the historic city of Santa Fe.
Above is the spiral stairway at the Loretto Chapel. No one knows how the stairway was built, they even brought several master carpenters and none were able to reproduce the unique craftmenship of this stairway or determine what kind of wood was used to build it. The handrail and small metal support (between the stair and the pillar) were added later for safety, but the original stairway was crafted as a completely free-standing spiral up to the choir balcony.
Also in Santa Fe is the oldest Christian church in the United States. This adobe style structure was built on Native American holy ground and originally had dirt floors and stone steps up to the alter.
Nearby the oldest church is the oldest house in the United States. The doorways are rather small and you can still see the straw mixed into the adobe walls of the outside of the building.
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