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I never wrote about my honeymoon... Guess I've been busy between my family, DJ's family and our friends. My great uncle George died last week. We weren't close, but it definitely brings home how small my family is.
It means a lot to me that I got to meet Natalie in person. Natalie... I'll never forget how freaked out I was by her first emails. I was suddenly in connection with a long-lost cousin I knew nothing about. No one can hold onto secrets quite like my mother's family.
Natalie is such an elegant sharp lady in person. Although I could sense that my family was all nervous still to be with her, I felt at home with her... I wish we had been able to speak more with each other. For me, speaking in person is always more real. I guess that's true of my friendships as well. DJ has often noted that I'm not like him in that I can go a long time without seeing a friend. I have very few true friends, and I treasure all of them, even if I don't see them often.
I read this year's book Christmas present recently. It is called The Rook, and it was instantly one of my favorites. I finally read Seraphina too, and I enjoyed that as well. Haven't seen any movies since Bourne (which I will buy the minute it comes out on DVD <3), but I am looking forward to the new 007 movie, even if I do agree with my manager. I do not find that man attractive.
These are all things that have happened since I got back from my honeymoon though. So, before I head off to work, something about New Mexico...
New Mexico is both beautiful and depressed. It is forcibly a mix of cultures, but the sun is so bright every day it's hard to think that way. The highway is straight and you can see the horizon, but there were mountain too, where we were. They were a huge ridge sprung up suddenly from the valley all around. I saw a miniature forest. I saw casinos. I saw the Rio Grande. Mostly I saw desert scrub, and It was a perfect day every day.
The hot springs were spread out and beautiful, both smaller and bigger than I thought they'd be. My favorite pool was the mud pool, where we baked in mud one day, twice. We bathed in the soda pool, the iron pool, and the arsenic pool. We went in the large pool at night and stargazed. The spa restaurant was reasonably priced with delicious food. DJ had the best duck in the world, and I had blue pancakes and added shrimp to every dinner. DJ's only complaint was that, apparently, real Mexican food does not involve sour cream in any way, lol.
The lady in the gift shop was incredibly kind to us and made us feel extremely welcome. We went there almost every day to pick up snacks for lunch, and at the end of our stay, we bought all kinds of souvenirs. We just couldn't leave without the incredibly soft robes we wore throughout the week. Also, a hand lotion that has miraculously kept my hands somewhat intact through the start of winter.
The spa treatments turned out really well. DJ had never had a massage, and he enjoyed his first experience immensely <3.
We went into Taos one day, and it reminded me of the Exeter/Stratham area. I bought wax wrapped chocolate... Getting there we got somewhat lost. We actually descended, in a Mustang, on a dirt road, into the Rio Grande Gorge. There were signs that had a car being crushed by falling rock. We went back the other way, across that actual Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, and that was its own experience. I've never once been afraid of heights, but the fear I felt on that bridge was definitely reasonable.
Other than our jaunt into Taos, we spent the rest of our time at the spa. Our room even had its own hot tub outside. Absolutely perfect. As always, I love DJ more and more every day.
It means a lot to me that I got to meet Natalie in person. Natalie... I'll never forget how freaked out I was by her first emails. I was suddenly in connection with a long-lost cousin I knew nothing about. No one can hold onto secrets quite like my mother's family.
Natalie is such an elegant sharp lady in person. Although I could sense that my family was all nervous still to be with her, I felt at home with her... I wish we had been able to speak more with each other. For me, speaking in person is always more real. I guess that's true of my friendships as well. DJ has often noted that I'm not like him in that I can go a long time without seeing a friend. I have very few true friends, and I treasure all of them, even if I don't see them often.
I read this year's book Christmas present recently. It is called The Rook, and it was instantly one of my favorites. I finally read Seraphina too, and I enjoyed that as well. Haven't seen any movies since Bourne (which I will buy the minute it comes out on DVD <3), but I am looking forward to the new 007 movie, even if I do agree with my manager. I do not find that man attractive.
These are all things that have happened since I got back from my honeymoon though. So, before I head off to work, something about New Mexico...
New Mexico is both beautiful and depressed. It is forcibly a mix of cultures, but the sun is so bright every day it's hard to think that way. The highway is straight and you can see the horizon, but there were mountain too, where we were. They were a huge ridge sprung up suddenly from the valley all around. I saw a miniature forest. I saw casinos. I saw the Rio Grande. Mostly I saw desert scrub, and It was a perfect day every day.
The hot springs were spread out and beautiful, both smaller and bigger than I thought they'd be. My favorite pool was the mud pool, where we baked in mud one day, twice. We bathed in the soda pool, the iron pool, and the arsenic pool. We went in the large pool at night and stargazed. The spa restaurant was reasonably priced with delicious food. DJ had the best duck in the world, and I had blue pancakes and added shrimp to every dinner. DJ's only complaint was that, apparently, real Mexican food does not involve sour cream in any way, lol.
The lady in the gift shop was incredibly kind to us and made us feel extremely welcome. We went there almost every day to pick up snacks for lunch, and at the end of our stay, we bought all kinds of souvenirs. We just couldn't leave without the incredibly soft robes we wore throughout the week. Also, a hand lotion that has miraculously kept my hands somewhat intact through the start of winter.
The spa treatments turned out really well. DJ had never had a massage, and he enjoyed his first experience immensely <3.
We went into Taos one day, and it reminded me of the Exeter/Stratham area. I bought wax wrapped chocolate... Getting there we got somewhat lost. We actually descended, in a Mustang, on a dirt road, into the Rio Grande Gorge. There were signs that had a car being crushed by falling rock. We went back the other way, across that actual Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, and that was its own experience. I've never once been afraid of heights, but the fear I felt on that bridge was definitely reasonable.
Other than our jaunt into Taos, we spent the rest of our time at the spa. Our room even had its own hot tub outside. Absolutely perfect. As always, I love DJ more and more every day.