Santa Fe prides itself on the nickname, “The City Different”.  It’s the 2nd oldest city in the US – can anyone name the oldest?  SunFlower friends??  You should know this…

Anyway, the city is home to a crazy number of art galleries, museums, and restaurants.  We (ok, I) was desperate to see the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (I’m not even really sure why, I just was) – and once the girls realized that Marie had shown a book of O’Keeffe’s work in class last year, the girls were desperate to go too.  It’s a great museum, and they had a very interesting video describing the artist and her life.  There were lots of film clips of her, and audio clips of her reading letters that she had written to friends over the years.   She lived to be 98, and looked “exceedingly spry” in the videos, as Rachel so succinctly put it.

Santa Fe has lots of interesting shopping opportunities.  Peter was interested in an authentic Navajo blanket, but with a price tag of $10,000, that wasn’t happening.  I couldn’t risk getting taking a picture, I figured they might charge for the privilege.  Pictures of dead animal skulls appeared to be free.