May
30
2006

Churches Of Santa Fe

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(Posted Under: Travel)
Photobox ImageToday we went back down to downtown Sante Fe, for a lack of a better idea.

We started driving around, the city. We passed the Sancutaro De La Guadalupe, which apparently has the oldest Shrine to Mary, thought it wasn't open today, being Memorial Day. This was disappointing, as it was the biggest draw card for things to do that we had.

Since Cate hadn't seen the churches in Sante Fe on Saturday, we parked behind the Cathedral, and had a look in there. Katie, in fear, stayed outside. Having seen it earlier, I didn't need to spend a lot of time in there. I took some photos outside, while Cath and Katie started walking towards the San Miguel Misson. I took a different route, walking past Loretto Chapel, which I'd wanted to take photos of on Saturday but hadn't. Flying solo breifly was cool. The girls had a head start, and I took my time, so I was suprised when I got to Sabb Miguel Misson and Katie and Cath were just walking up the side street.

Catherine went in to look around, I felt that I didn't need to pay another dollar to look inside. When Catherine was done, we set out on search of food andd drink, winding up at the Plaza Resturant. Once inside, it didn't seem like the best choice, but we aucked it up. The food was actually fine, but the menu seemed pretty crazy.

Feeling fairly full, I went and sat in the park in the center of town, while Cath and Katie went to look at the five and dime store again. Once they were done, we headed down towards Loretto Chapel, which had been closed on Saturday for a wedding, but was open today. I felet that it was certainly worthhwhile seeing if it was - I enjoyed this Chapel. Apparently it has been featured in Unsolved Mysteries. As the story goes, the Chapel had no stairs to - well - whatever you call the secohnd level at the back of the chapel - and the nuns prayed to the Saint of Carpentry (my immense religious knowledge is really shining through at the moment, isn't it?), and on the 9th day of prayer, an unknown carpenter appeared, build the stairs, and disappeared when the job was finished, without payment. The stairs themselves were quite impressive, and I believe are archiecturally significant. Sometime later the banisters were added on request of the nuns - Katie and I both commented on how daunting walking up them without a banister would be! We both agreed this was cooler than the cathedral.

After this it was getting pretty late, and we made our way back to the car, and headed back to the hotel.

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