Craig's blog

This morning we met Aunt Phynix for breakfast at a place called Michael’s Kitchen. It was great to see my aunt – I haven’t seen her in over 30 years! She looked great and the girls really liked her. We enjoyed meeting her friend Abel too. And as my Mom had promised, Michael’s Kitchen was an outstanding place to have breakfast. It was busy on father’s day, but it’s big and we were pretty early, so we were seated quickly. After breakfast we went to Phynix’s place and met all her animals. It was a great morning.

After we left Phynix, we did some grocery shopping, had lunch and then went to visit the Taos Pueblo. It was hot, but Patty and I had fun taking photos. The kids were mostly miserable, but Maddie seemed somewhat interested. After the Pueblo we went back into town where the girls got some ice cream and I had some iced coffee. Then I went for a bike ride from the Pueblo and did a big loop around the outskirts of Taos. It was neat to see the variety of roads and situations, from big old ranches along the creek to brand new beautiful adobe-style homes on new dirt roads. I met the family back at the campground after my ride and we had bbq’d steak, baked potatoes and sauteed farmers’ market snow peas. The kids wanted to play a family game for father’s day after dinner, so we played a game of Clue that kept the girls up too late. Tomorrow we head to Canyon de Chelly. We’re shooting to have breakfast and pack up for a 7:00 departure. We’ll see how it goes…