Sunday June 26, 2016
June Yvonne is still in Santa Fe so I went going fly fishing. I spent the day at the lake and though I saw some big fish from the shore they would slowly swim up to my fly in the water, look at it and slowly swim away. I’m sure that if fish had fingers I would have gotten one. There is a reason why they call it fishing and not catching. About mid afternoon the clouds started rolling in for the regularly scheduled afternoon shower. I noticed some lightening off in the distance and decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea to be waving a carbon fiber fishing rod around in the air. So I folded up my rod and headed home. A random lightening strike could ruin your whole day.
As I was driving home it started to rain with loud thunder and close lightening. The down hill mountain bike races were scheduled to start at 2:30pm however I could not see the top of the mountain. By the time I got back to the RV it was hailing. 
I later learned from the two guys in the RV park that they shut the lift down due to lightening and the race was delayed 4 hours. They placed in the top 20 but their was no prize money for them. Within an hour they were packed up and off to the next event. PRC
June 30, 2016
It is good to be back home to our little trailer and to my husband. He dropped me off on Friday at the hotel for the Sephardic Festival and the Conference for the crypto-Judaic Studies. He returned to Santa Fe on Tuesday and spent the night at the hotel with me. We spent some time in Santa Fe sightseeing and returned to Angel Fire Wednesday afternoon.
By the way, Sephardic Jews are Jews from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal.)
I am very tempted to provide a short history lesson here regarding Jews in Spain which includes our family at least on my mother’s side of the family. But don’t worry I won’t. You can always google for info that you may be interested in. Also I would be happy to send you the summary I did regarding the Espinoza family.
The days I spent at the conference and and Sephardic Festival were not so much about tourist sites or scenery – until Peter came the last day. I received lots of information, met some wonderful people and managed to see an outstanding Flamenco show. We hope to return to Santa Fe soon as its a beautiful city with so much to do…
Peter spent the night on Tuesday. We spent Wednesday sight seeing, mostly on a trolley learning the history of Santa Fe. We had lunch at the Shed, a restaurant that Stev C. had suggested. It was spicy and good. Peter was a good sport and enjoyed some chili also. Carolyn M. – It was not far from the train station so who knows it may have been
the restaurant you suggested. The red chili was excellent.
So, as you may have noticed, we haven’t spent much time working on the blog. This is because: 1) We have been having too much fun; 2) We have been too tired because we have been having too much fun; 3) We haven’t felt like it because we have been having too much fun; 4) all of the above. We hope to catch up with the blog in the next couple of days.
I’m still loving being up here in the northern New Mexico mountains. JY
We will catch up the blog tomorrow – we’ve done a lot of different things. PRC
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