Monday - A Zoo, A Garden and more flying

Today we didn’t have to be at the airport until noon so Kelly and I in one car and Brian and Rosemary in another headed out to the Santa Fe Zoo. It was very small but had a good selection of animals (birds, monkey’s, crocodiles, etc.). The interior roads and paths were all dirt and the grass wasn’t cut but still nice all the same. From there we drove a few blocks to the Botanical Gardens. There were no gardens that we could see, just trees and grass. Our route to the airport took us all along the river, past some beautiful homes and beaches. Very pretty.

When we arrived at the airport Kelly & I drove Mark and Dave over to the hangar for lunch (pizza, steak). On the way there was a 2-foot lizard crossing the road so I stopped, Mark got out to take a photo but it ran away. Mark was a little slow getting back into the car and I started to drive off with only half of him in the vehicle. Much laughter. I didn’t do it on purpose . . . . . really! We spent the afternoon watching the team fly and then we returned to the hotel and waited until we could have dinner.

No restaurants open for dinner until 8:30pm at the earliest. This makes it hard when you have to get up at 5:30am. Plus we’re all starving by 9pm. Dinner tonight was at a restaurant recommended to us as ‘where the locals eat’. It was fantastic. Dinner for 8 people including wine and beer was $103.00 pesos ($31.64 Cdn or $3.95 each) Wow!