April 1-4
We stayed one night at Villanueva State Park, arriving in just enough time to settle in and take a hike up to a beautiful viewpoint. Our site was a sandy place along a river with few other campers in the campground. These midwesterners were so refreshed by the sight of water for several days of dry, dry, dry.
The kids had a wonderful time carving out a dammed pool and a ditch that connected with the river. They enjoyed several rounds of filling up the pool with buckets of water, then breaking the dam and watching the water flow down the ditch and into the river.
The following day we headed toward Taos and stayed a couple nights at a restaurant by the side of the road that follows the Rio Grande. The kids and Erin spent part of a day in Taos, visiting a little park and a couple art galleries. Erin was not such a great sport as the poison ivy/oak/sumac that she picked up the previous week in Arkansas continued to intensify and spread.
As we checked out of our restaurant site our final day in New Mexico, Matt and the kids did some mountain biking while Erin sat in the van with her oozing and itchy self.
Eliza finished crocheting her first full-size hat. For me 🙂
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