10th Anniversary

Our 10th anniversary was Wednesday. I’m very grateful and relieved to have made it 10 years.

Usually we would postpone our anniversary celebration until the weekend. But at the moment we don’t live together during the work week. It didn’t seem right to spend the night of our 10th anniversary apart! So we took vacation time on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, and spent the night at a local resort.

Our date started out with a trip to the car wash – that was really romantic, ha ha. But John can’t take a muddy car to a resort!

The Tamaya Resort is on the Santa Ana Pueblo, near Bernalillo (which is near Placitas). https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/new-mexico/hyatt-regency-tamaya-resort-and-spa/tamay

This is the view from our balcony.

John is doing the keto diet with me whenever we are together, so our first challenge was lunch. The golf course cafe gave us beef patties with green chili. We asked for a large amount of lettuce in leu of the buns and fries, but they gave us one tiny piece of lettuce each.

It’s easy to get plenty of proteins when eating out in the US, but hard to get enough vegetables. To do the keto diet right, you have to eat far more vegetables (and oils) than people in the US would typically eat.

Here I am, dressed for dinner.

At dinner we sat next to the fireplace, because they were over air conditioning in the August heat. Go figure.

Typically, I wouldn’t even eat carrots (no root crops) because they have a fair amount of starches and sugars.

I made an exception for the carrots, but no cake. We had to turn down the complimentary anniversary desert!

The resort is near the river, and has walking paths through the bosque and down to the river.   

It was very pleasant and relaxing. Except when we got chased by a skunk! Seriously! The skunk appeared out of the cottonwood trees onto the trail, turned and started running right towards us. We backed away and were just about to turn tail and run, when it veered off the path back into the cottonwoods. If you look closely there’s a skunk in the next picture. But it’s not the one that chased us. It’s the second skunk we saw that night that chased us!

We enjoyed the rural feel of the resort, the Native American vibe, and best of all – it didn’t require a plane trip, or even a long drive!

Here we are at breakfast (huevos rancheros), before heading to work.