Taos

We went to Taos over the Labor Day weekend and caught up with Kirk's parents along with co-worker friends and their kids. Six adults and three kids sharing a vacation rental = good fun (with a mild sarcastic undertone). The good fun was in abundance because Sarah was battling a cold as well as I mid way through so patience was running thin, tears easily flowed and those who weren't used to sickly toddlers seemed a tad bit irritated at times during the crying fits. ha! But the house was nice and Taos proved to be as advertised - very artsy fartsy, hippy and extremely liberal. The artsy fartsy bit meant that shopping turned into window shopping for us given the small trinkets and other touristy chotskies in easy reach making it a challenge for a 2.5 year old and their uncontrolled need to touch everything. We even got kicked out of one store after Sarah picked up these little furry critter things which apparently irritated the store clerk a bit too much. All in all the shopping was similar to downtown Anchorage with the same ol'junk in every single store and hopefully made in Alaska (or New Mexico for that matter) but we found several "authentic" items authentically made in China. We did find a kid only place called Twirl which Sarah and the other two girls enjoyed. Kirk, his dad and our co-worker friend made it to the streams to fish for two days in the New Mexico sun. They had a great time both days.

Sarah chasing the local bunny population around the vacation rental.

Very happy with fish in hand.

Sarah enjoying the play yard at Twirl with one slightly chapped upper lip from the nasal drainage.

On the tail end of the trip, it became evident that the cooties that took over my body were not going to allow me to make my much anticipated mommy only trip to Anchorage to visit friends after the Labor Day weekend. sniff, sniff So, I had to postpone the trip with high hopes to make it back to the Last Frontier in November. Fingers and toes are double crossed!

OMG this is scary

I received this video from a friend in Alaska and felt I needed to share. It's frightening to see who has been elected to represent the people of this nation. (side note - I had to chuckle at the lady in the background towards the end of the clip covering her mouth so no one could see her laughing at the woman speaking)