New Mexico Trip

So last weekend i headed down to New Mexico for the better part of three days for my aunt's wedding, hoping to support her, but also to go and enjoy the landscape and mountainous region of Taos. Getting off of the plane i realized that, prior to this trip, i had never seen mountains before. Not in person at least. So from the 2 hour trip from Albuquerque to Taos, all i could do was ogle the mountains that rose up on either side of us as we drove through valleys and along the Rio Grande River. To be honest, up until the last 1.5 days of the trip, i really didn't talk to anyone all that much-i kept daydreaming about scaling these steep cliffs and jumping all over them. For a period of time, it seemed that i wasn't going to get to do anything though; scheduling and a lack of initiative kept getting in the way..lucky for me, my mom and uncle wanted to hike on a mountain very badly, so we convinced ourselves to wake up at 5 am two days in a row (sunday and monday) so as to have enough time to enjoy the scenery. As for the wedding (the main reason i went, of course) it went just fine about 10 ft from the edge of the Rio Grande Gorge; an awesome view for anyone who's fortunate enough to see it. Anyway, i've uploaded some pictures, most of which i feel don't do justice to what i saw (to be honest i've heard this phrase plenty of times but didn't truly understand it until now).

where we hiked

me + uncles

my mama

awesome cliff face; you can't tell but it's incredibly steep from where i could see

bride and groom + random bikers from texas