Day 4, Taos
Again we started out with breakfast in Amaya, this time with Mike switching to Huevos Rancheros.
I was walking a bit better, so we went back to Old Town Plaza, and checked out the
lovely things being sold by the Indian artists at the Palace of the Governors.
That evening, we had reservations for Mike's birthday dinner at one of our
favorite restaurants, Joseph's Table which is located in the Old Town Plaza in Taos.
The drive over is beautiful.
St Francis de Asis, Ranchos de Taos
In Ranchos de Taos.
When we arrived in Taos, the Plaza (which is very like the Plazas in Santa Fe and Albuquerque)
was blocked off! We had to park at a meter nearby. 
Well, that couldn't be right ~ we walked to the hotel which houses Joseph's and learned that Joseph's was closed. Apparently the event,
what ever it was, was last minute and they had just decided to close. They had called ahead to
Lamberts and made reservations for us, but we were still very disappointed. My back was going again,
so we did very little browsing on the Plaza and headed for Lamberts where the staff went
out of their way to make things special for us.
After visiting with other guests in the bar, we went in to dinner were I had an appetizer of
"Wild local mushrooms picked by fuzzy hippies in the Ski country". (That's the way our waiter
described them, so it must be so. lol!) However they were obtained, they were fabulous.
Mike had crabcakes in a curry sauce that he said was
wonderful, followed by a tenderloin filet in a wild mushroom sauce.
I had a lovely salmon in a white chocolate buerre blanc sauce! (Yup, you read that right.
It wasn't sweet, but it was rich and delicious.)
Dessert was a white chocolate ice cream soda for me (home made white chocolate
ice cream with home made chocolate syrup). Oooh, yum. For Mike, the white
chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup without the soda. lol
My Mushroom appetizer and Mike's Birthday Ice Cream.
The drive home was about an hour and a half, which gave us time to digest our dinner before
coming back to the room and letting Mike open his birthday presents.
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The trip was Mike's 'real' present, but he had to have a few things to open on
his birthday. Ok, so he had already gotten a couple of presents early. 
Time to say Good Night.
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