Oh, boy ... long day!
We headed for farmers' market in Cortez, and met hundreds of participants in Bicycle Tour Colorado. So, we stopped several places along the road to get pictures of them streaming by.
Which made us late for the market. We really didn't need much anyway, so we got some coffee, visited with friends, listened to the young musicians and headed back east. After quick stops at City Market and Wal-Mart, we were on our way to Mesa Verde.
I'm terribly remiss in that, since we've been together, I haven't taken Sandy through one of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. She's seen more sites at Chaco. So, we got tickets for the 11 a.m. Balcony House tour. The groups are smaller and the tour is more intimate ... you get to go into the back of the structure ... than Cliff Palace or Spruce Tree House. And then there's the excitement of the ladders and steps ... on the side of a cliff.
Sandy had misgivings about the ladders, but she is a wonderful companion ... took it in stride and had fun taking photographs all the way. We had an excellent interpreter leading the tour.
Lunch at the Far View Terrace salad bar, a little time at the Verde Fest ("green" exhibits outside the FVT) and off to Mancos for the 2008 Renaissance Faire in Cottonwood Park.
The Verde Fest folks were having trouble keeping their canopies from flying away. A little of that breeze would have been nice in Cottonwood Park! HOT! Lots of people there, many of them in something like period garb. A beggar and a joker wandered the grounds. After watching a while, we crawled home ... gonna sleep well tonight! tv
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