living a story book adventure

Today Sweetheart and I attended the class field trip to El Rancho de Las Golondrinas near Santa Fe.
What a beautiful day to be out in the warm sun under the big New Mexico blue and turquoise skies.

The El Rancho de Las Golondrinas is a historic living history museum located on 250 acres in a rural farming valley south of Santa Fe.
The museum is dedicated to the history, heritage and culture of 18th and 19th century New Mexico.
While hiking throughout the trails we stopped by many living exhibits who told us the history and life of living on the rancho.

Burros were used mostly for transporting heavy items.

These women were carding, spinning and dying wool

Las Golondrinas is rich in language, culture, art, traditions and history of Spanish Colonial, Mexican, and Territorial New Mexico.

Historical hill top chapel with campo santo on site

Utility wagon parking lot..........

Historical water mill / grain mill in action

Beautiful traditional adobe oratorio

Sweetheart and I hiked all about Los Golondrinas with the class. We visited the placita house, blacksmith shop, candle maker, riverside laundry, wheelwright shop, winery, vineyard, morada, descansos, oratorio. and to the hill top chapel with campo santo.

Stunning NM beauty

Amazing Autumnal view

Various films were shot here at Los Golondrinas including:
Tiger Eyes (2010) featuring Willa Holland, Tatanka Means, Based on the book by Judy Blume.
MacGruber (2009) featuring Will Forte, Powers Boothe, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe, Based on a Saturday Night Live skit.
Doc West (2009) featuring Paul Sorvino, Terence Hill. Premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Kites (2009) featuring Hrithrik Roshan, Barbara Mori. Asian and South American cinema
Shoot First and Pray You Live (2008) featuring Jo Blackstone, Erik Bockemeier
Comanche Moon (2009) featuring Val Kilmer, West Studi, Rachel Griffiths
Kit Carson (2008) featuring Michael Murphy. documentary, The American Experience
Seraphim Falls (2006) featuring Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Angie Harmon, Anjelica Huston.
Into the West (2005) featuring Gary Busey, Judge Reinhold, Tom Berenger, Rachael Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine. Produced by Stephen Speilberg.
The Conquest of America (2004) Documentary narrated by Bill Curtis.
The Missing (2003) featuring Cate Blanchette, Tommy Lee Jones. Directed by Ron Howard
All the Pretty Horses (2000) featuring Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Sam Shepard, Bruce Dern.
Vampires (1998) featuring James Wood, Daniel Baldwin, Maximilian Schell, Sheryl Lee.
The Staircase (1998) featuring Barbara Hershey, William Peterson, Diane Ladd
Gunfighters of the West (1998) Documentary narrated by Brian Dennehy
Fools Rush In (1997) featuring Salma Haayek, Matthew Perrry.
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West (1995) featuring Cloris Leachman, Ester Rolle.
Wyatt Earp (1994) featuring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid, Mare Willingham
The Legend of O.B. Taggart (1994) featuring Ned Beatty, Earnest Borgnine, Larry Gatlin, Mickey Rooney, Ben Johnson, Randy Travis.
Young Guns (1988) featuring Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, Brian Keith.
Wild Times (1980) featuring Sam Elliott, Harry Carey Jr. Bruce Boxleitner, Dennis Hopper.
Butch and the Sundance: The Early Days (1979) featuring Tom Berenger, William Katt, Jill Eikenberry, Brian Dennehy, Christopher Lloyd.

Familiar??

A quick game of lunch time tag.........

Good bye Los Golondrinas........

We had a great time!!

 Sweetheart and I had a memorable day at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas.
Sweetheart said it was like experiencing the life of Josefina Montoya from American Girl.
(http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/html/thumbnail/id/238/uid/35)
I agree that we did have a great storybook to life adventure today..............