Shopping and Santa Fe

October 6 -  This morning we stopped at the local flea market before heading into Santa Fe.  They said they have more vendors tomorrow but I did find the earrings I have been looking for.  We did a test run to Wal-mart on the west side of Santa Fe.  We are picking Kam up at the airport on Sunday morning and needed to make sure the route was OK for the RV and where we would park while I take the car and pick her up.  Since we were there I needed some allergy pills so I went in to Walmart and left with new Corelle dishes for the RV.  They do not provide plastic bags!  Here they charge .10 per paper grocery bag.  Then we stopped at an RV place to pick up a part and then we stopped at a nursery that didn’t have what I was looking for.

We had lunch at a place from Diners, Dives and Drive-Ins: Tecolote Café.  The place was packed and from what I understand this is their new place.  The service was excellent as was the food.  I had tamales with beans and posole while Bill had a beef burrito with beans and rice.  We both had some to take home because they give you a choice of tortillas or bread basket so we took the bread.  It had 2 each of blueberry muffins, chocolate muffins and biscuits with containers of strawberry preserves and butter.  We took our biscuits and the jam and butter with our leftovers.

Shopping at the Plaza

Ristras for sale

Finding a parking spot in Old Town Santa Fe was a challenge but we managed to find one just a block off the plaza.  We enjoyed checking out the jewelry vendors set up on blankets along the Palace of Governors.  So much jewelry!  I did find a ring to match the earrings I bought earlier.  We picked up a few gifts for friends and checked out some of the over priced shops.  We made it back to the car with 8 minutes left on the parking meter.  

We stopped Albertson’s on the way out of town to get some meat as we were out of chicken, ground beef and cube steaks.  Again this store had no bags!  The short trip home was uneventful.  I had a glas of wine and eventually got around to making dinner.  We had chicken alfredo with spaghetti and salads.  We watched some TV and talked on the phone with Bill’s sister, Carole and our Sue that we volunteered with in Idaho.