Music Festival in New Mexico!

As promised, I've finally gotten around to uploading videos and pictures from our quick trip down to New Mexico for the 3rd annual Music on the Rocks at Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort.  In case I haven't mentioned it before, I'm so thankful that my mom decided to put this festival together - even though it has seen rain all three years, it is such a great event and it's SO fun getting to see the family band (Main Street Garage) play!  I didn't take part this year, but don't worry, I did my share of bossing around like any good manager/wife/daughter/sister would do :)  Benjamin, however, kept me very busy, even from under his fancy rain cover!  We were sad the rain came (it was probably the worst rain so far), but the crowd was bigger than ever and were real troopers!

Of course we were stuck in brutal traffic on the way down...

But, we had an even more adventurous drive getting into New Mexico - these are a sample of some of the signs we saw... (wild horse, elk, deer, cows, you name it!)  Thankfully someone flashed their headlights at us on Le Veta Pass because once we came around a bend, there were five deer, one in the middle of the road!  And later as we crossed into New Mexico on a two lane road, a pack of wild horses were hanging out... in the ROAD.  No longer was I scared of just those crazy deer grazing by the road... I now was looking for horses!?!?  (Oh, and I did hit a few field mice...so much for loving wildlife)

 

But when we finally got there, we had a mini hotel-room party!

Breakfast burritos in the morning, of course:

Working on Benjamin's mobility before heading to the pool:

 

 

 Then it was off, in the rain, to Sipapu!  We asked Siri for directions, and this is what we got:

It was only drizzling when we got there, but we loaded up the trusty stroller and threw on the rain cover... Benjamin had the best spot all day!  We were off!

 

 

 Benjamin liked dancing with my mom and Jason...

sound check

A few videos of their tunes (beware, lots more pics below):

 

 

 

 

 The rain during Main Street Garage....  :(

 

watching in the rain

 

napping in the rain

Gorgeous drive back to the hotel...

 That night we ate some tasty tamales, watched some Olympics, and chatted about the gig.  It was a fun (and tiring!) day!

Sunday morning we hit the road to my mom's place to eat some breakfast.  Benjamin was inspired by his dad's performance the day before, so he tried to play some tunes on the piano :)

Thanks for the fun times, mom!

 

Benjamin (thankfully) snoozed most of the ride home...