Santa Fe, New Mexico 5/31

We finally got to our next state... New Mexico!!! We hit up Santa Fe, which is a very artsy town with a long old history. We had really no idea where to go or what to do, so what did we do? We hit up the visitor's center... We talked with this very nice lady who told us some of the history but didn't really give us any advice on what to see. We took a map and decided to wing it!
It was a Sunday so we were a little worried that things might be closed (especially with the Spanish influence) but we were really lucky and most things did not close until 7pm. We headed to downtown Santa Fe and the first thing we ran into was the old Spanish Mission. We got to get a glimpse inside right before they started Sunday mass. The inside totally reminded me of the San Luis Obispo mission. It was very beautiful. We walked further into downtown checking out the art galleries and shops. There was a small flea market set up that we were fortunate enough to catch the end of. I got a beautiful hand made silver indian ring. The gentlemen that made the jewelry told me about the stone and that the one I picked (it was soo hard to chose) he had just made the previous day. It was truly unique. We did not have a chance to go to any of Santa Fe's many art museums but we got to take pictures of the buildings they were in. Santa Fe's architecture is really something to look at, all of the buildings we so beautiful. After we walked all through downtown we hopped back on the road and headed down to Roswell, NM. I must say that Santa Fe is definitely a town I would love to visit again!
*I forgot to mention at the beginning that while driving into New Mexico we encountered some crazyiness! While Joe was driving, I was playing some solitare on the iphone (I am hooked!) and all of a sudden he tells me to look out the windshield. What I saw looked like SNOW! But it was really about a 1/4 mile of road that had been hit by hail, hail the size of marbles! We also saw a truck on the side of the road that looked like it had slid off the road and turned onto it's side. Joe pulled over and helped the guys flip the truck back onto it's tires. Both of the right side tires were totally destroyed, we new how they felt since we had not two weeks earlier experienced a trailer flat.Crazyiness!