Santa Fe - Nov. 2009

So back in the beginning of November a company Marcus does business with was holding a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico and we were invited to go. They pretty much paid for everything! The resort we stayed at in downtown Santa Fe was gorgeous. It was called the Inn & Spa at Loretto and it had the most beautiful chapel in it that was awesome.
It had an amazing & famous spiral staircase that had no visible means of support and initially no rails. It has an awesome story behind it. You can read about it here: http://www.lorettochapel.com/staircase.html

It was also really nice because we only brought Dallin and we were had a fun getaway without the kids - thanks mom & dad! It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect. While Marcus was at seminars during the day, Dallin & I drove to Albuquerque to visit my little brother and his family. My brother is an ER Dr. there doing his residency and we don't get to see them often because docs don't get too much time off. They finally got to meet the newest addition to our family.

I had a great time with them shopping, eating and playing with my niece and nephew. It was so great to see them. Here are some more pics of our trip:

The first 3 pics are from the resort we stayed at and the last pic in front of a beautiful cathedral in downtown Santa Fe. The last day we were there we got to spend the whole day together sight seeing. We had the tastiest, but longest lunch ever with everyone who attended the conference and their spouses. Practically everything on the menu and that we ate the whole weekend had chiles or spice in it. Even things like watermelon. At this lunch the last day the best part was dessert - a red chile chocolate soup with toasted pine nuts. It sounds gross but it was heaven in my mouth. Finally, we wandered around the square in downtiwn looking at all the jewelry there. The whole time starting with the marathon lunch through shoppong Dallin slept for over 4 hours in his Moby Wrap carrier. You can see me wearing him in the last picture. It was awesome. The whole day everyone kept asking us if we had a baby in there and several merchants offered to trade him for their wares. I think one of them might have been serious. There was some amazing and expensive jewelry there. We finally decided on a beautiful copper cuff bracelet for my mom to thank her for watching our kids. Later as we were racing to the airport almost missing our flight Marcus realized that he forgot to get his ATM card back after getting cash to pay for the bracelet, but we did make our flight and no damage was done to his bank account. I hope this trip is one of many more work trips we take. It was awesome!