Mini vacation in Santa Fe

The day we left camp Chad, Ezra and I drove the hour or so to Santa Fe to stay in a hotel and just relax before we headed home. I was so glad we took this little detour, because we got out of camp much later in the day than I thought we would after all the packing, loading and cleaning, and it was an exhausting weekend of starting each day super early and late nights each night. So I was glad not to have to drive 5 hours home exhausted and then have to unload, unpack etc. right away.

We decided that we would try a few restaurants that Guy Fieri had visited on "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives." One place we had already been twice--Harry's Roadhouse. The other places we went to were Backroad Pizza and Tune-up cafe.

Backroad was the first place we hit when we got to Santa Fe. We just ordered some garlic cheese rolls w/ their homemade ranch dressing for an appetizer, and Chad let me pick the toppings for the pizza. So I picked fresh garlic, pineapple, red onion, and canadian bacon. We all agreed that it was delicious, and enjoyed garlic breath for the rest of the day.We went to Harry's for dinner. This was our third time there, and probably our least favorite. Well, Chad didn't like his dinner very much this time. He got a steak and I got this delicious Moroccan vegetable stew w/ couscous: Anything lacking in either meal was made up for in the desserts. Chad got a slice of blueberry pie, which was just delicious with the lemon ice cream I ordered. Yummy!The first two times we went to Harry's I got the lemon ricotta pancakes and a Hawaiian pizza (yes, I love canadian bacon and pineapple on my pizza). I had been eyeing this on the menu but hadn't been willing to be that adventurous, but I was glad I finally ordered it. It was really good.

Finally, we stopped at Tune-up cafe because Tecolote cafe is closed on Mondays or we would have gone there. We will head back there next summer. Tune-up was really good though. It was a tiny little place and we ate outside. Actually, we have eaten outside at all these restaurants. You can do that kind of thing in Santa Fe because the weather is so good. I got the stuffed french toast which Ezra shared with me, and Chad got this dish pictured below. It was polenta with some kind of chorizo/corn chili on top of it. I tried it and it was really good. Ezra liked his scrambled egg too. This is how we all felt on the way home on Monday, and have felt pretty much ever since...it takes a while to recover from the summer.