Travel Day: 2

Our trip on Day #2 began with sadly leaving Santa Fe in the rear view mirror....such a beautiful place! The trip for the day was driving/standing in: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. I'm hoping that Mark's family and mine will entertain the idea of meeting in Santa Fe for Christmas or Thanksgiving. It would be so much fun!! We can do so many fun things in the snow! 

With heavy recommendation from Lesley we went to have breakfast at Blake's. This is a popular place in New Mexico...and the breakfast tacos prove why! So delicious!

We did manage a side trip to the Four Corners! It was actually really neat...! I'm not a big geography buff, but after living in Texas all my life and knowing that it takes forever to get from one side of the state to the other...standing in 4 states at once is pretty awesome. We took a few pictures...one of our feet, one of the flags, and one of a cute little family of four, parents and a 4 yr old and 6 mo old who were all placed in a separate state. It just was really cute to see and the little 4 yr old girl thought she was SO cool! I waved to her and proved to her that she was...I can't wait to experience just the same with my family one day.

A big thing to the Native Americans is their "Navajo Frybread". There was a little shop set up (a trailer with a shed built around it) at the Four Corners that was serving up this delicious treat, so we had to partake. We had ours with powdered sugar and honey..yum! Did I mention that we were amidst a wind storm and I'm pretty sure that we were eating sand, dirt, and frybread. :)

Not a big deal...but this is a big deal! Look how cool this rock is! This is pretty much what we drove through and over all throughout New Mexico.

On our drive through Utah, Mark...the leader of the driving trip, saw this! The name of the rock is, "Church Rock". We pulled over to take a few pictures of it and got right back on the road. Just after this rock was one that looked like an alligator. It is just so interesting to see these landmarks, I love being able to see the age of the rock and mountains!

Our last stop before the "Hotel from Hell" was the Arches National Park. This picture was taken while I was driving, most of them were, but I loved how it seems that the rock was just placed on top of the other...and I snagged a picture of the moon. I'm just that good!

So, no pictures for this part...only a description of our hotel! A little background: Mark and I made the decision while planning our trip that we wouldn't make hotel reservations until the day of. What if we wanted to take longer at one place or just drive for an extra hour. It makes sense, right? Well on night #2 we drove to Price, UT...not really a destination spot. :( We pulled up to the hotel and went inside to get a room, and all seemed fine! Oh and by the way, there are not a lot of hotels that accept pets...this place was HAPPY to accept them. OK, so back on track...we got a great rate for the room and was told to come in for breakfast in the morning and were sent (unknowingly scared to death) to our room. We drove around the building and started to notice that there were a lot of people just standing outside their room. Some smoking, some people were dancing, and some just hanging on their open car door. We pulled around to find that we were placed on the smelly, pet only end of the hotel, with no parking nearby. (We did have a lot of valuables in the car and that was something that we wanted) I wearily looked at Mark, and we opened the door to our dingy, Veterinarian office smelling, thin walled, maybe a hidden camera room. I was totally defeated to say the least...we tried to find a new hotel with no hope. Only having the option to sleep in the cars or on TOP of the bedding with a towel as a sheet...we chose the room. This was after we met our hotel room neighbor the pit bull toting soap salesman, who was doing business out of the hotel! Awesome! Maybe, I should have bought some from him...do I smell a discount?!

Have a good night!

XO from Seattle,

Laura

Off to watch the pre-season Seahawks game! Go Hawks!