I have a seriously awesome husband (shhh... don't tell him) who genuinely enjoys spending time with me and with the girls. We have been living it up this fall since the kiddos went back to school. David's job here in ABQ has a 9/80 work week which means he has every other Friday off. Kids are in school for 7.5 hours on Fridays, which means the chance to do pretty much whatever the heck we want for as long as we want. Thanks, school, for all the free baby-sitting for our new "date days!" We've been known to walk the dogs on the mesa, have long lunches on restaurant patios in Corrales, followed by afternoon dollar movies, possibly combined with spending too much money together at Costco. (p.s. we always spend more when we are together and can instantly approve each other's purchases. It's not good.)
We may have also just returned from a belated anniversary trip to a bed and breakfast in Snowflake, AZ. Thanks to a sweet groupon and some awesome family members (Grandma and Grandpa,) we were able to take off foot-loose and fancy-free for 2 days for really no reason. David did want to do a little root-digging into his family tree as his Grandfather was born in Snowflake and other family members are buried nearby. We also did a side trip to the Petrified Forest National Park. David has promised, promised!, that he would blog about the trip. Do I need to say "hint hint?"
This super great husband is also a stellar dad. Although we give him his Saturday mornings for bike rides, he's always game to spend the rest of the weekend with us and never stops coming up with ideas for places to go and things to do. A couple Fridays ago when he was off work and the kids were out of school, he took us to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary. It was a 2 hour drive into the desert, but so worth it to see these amazing animals up close and learn more about them. Grace and Harriet are such huge animal lovers and were mesmerized by everything there. It has been more than a week and they are still talking about it. I think it will be a spot where we will be returning in the future.
We learned so much about wolves. These two are "low content" meaning they have wolf in them, but they are mostly dog. You can tell by their waggly tails, big ears, space between front legs, and darker eye color. Wolves don't wag their tails have very small, fur-stuffed ears, have little space between front legs, and only have amber eyes.
A red fox that had been rescued from a zoo along with some other canines. Our Swedish tour guide, Siri, is feeding him.
A white german shepherd belonging to one of the volunteers. Seriously cool dog, but no, not a wolf. Hence, no fence.
Our way home was past two national monuments. We decided to stop at El Morro. "Inscription Rock" is this huge rock where people have been stopping and hanging out for hundreds and thousands of years. It is a rare place in the desert where you can find fresh water year-round and so makes a good place to pass by with a great landmark to help you find it. There are ancient pueblo ruins up in the top of the rock and tons of petroglyphs, Spanish, and English inscriptions near the bottom. Somewhere around 1912, I think, they decided that anything prior to that would be considered a historic inscription and anything later would be vandalism and graffiti. Some inscriptions (which might now be considered historic) were sandblasted and removed.
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