O'Keefe Country

Pooh on Palace. Wait...

The Monk's Corner.

Old Abandoned Cabin

Window in the mosque

The mosque

A smaller mosque

Yesterday morning we went shopping in Santa Fe. All of the stores were very authentic. We had lunch at the Blue Corn cafe, which we tried to go to the night before, but we couldn't find it. We had blue and white corn chips and dip, and blue and white corn enchiladas. One of the stores we went to was the Monk's Corner. Aaaaaah. We had ice-cream at Haagen-Daz, and walked around for a little more. After shopping, we drove to Abiquiu, Georgia O'Keefe's home town and stayed at the Abiquiu Inn. It was such a sweet little hotel, in a wooded area with pretty little flowers and wild life. I was in awe at the hummingbirds who moved so fast and sounded like giant bees. We drove around Abiquiu for a while, and it was beautiful. The rocks were in amazing hues, and after seeing her paintings, you saw that what you thought was abstract, are actually quite realistic. My mom bought a book about Georgia at the O'Keefe museum, which had a map of places in Abiquiu. So we followed the map to Ghost Ranch, where Georgia stayed when she visited New Mexico. She loved it so much, she bought a house there. This morning, we visited it. When she first bought it, it was merely a few large clumps of mud, and a couple walls. It took her ten years to restore it. It was a simple house, but the view was amazing. In almost every room, windows look out to the rocks and mountains. Her room has two windows that look out to a flat topped mountain, which she made her own. After the tour we drove to Dar al Islam, the mosque. It is around the "White Place" which we couldn't visit for they were filming the movie "Cowboys and Aliens" there. No Harrison Ford sightings. The mosque was very large, but we couldn't go into all of it. It was an adobe building with interesting windows and doors. We drove on to Las Vegas. No, not Nevada, New Mexico. We checked into our hotel which we thought looked like the Stanley, the haunted hotel we visited last year. (See "Mint Room Survival" from July 8 last year.) When we got to the room, my mom started reading up on the hotel. "OK, it turns out, this hotel is haunted." Hmmmm....