Oct 11/2012
Stayed in bed late this AM as it was too windy for the Special Shapes Rodeo. We took the shuttle over to the grounds at 5:30 for the Special Shapes Glodeo, where they inflate the balloons and shoot fire into them to make them glow, however it was also too windy for this to take place so sat through until 7:30 for yet another phenominal fireworks diplay, lasting a full half hour !!

Oct 12/2012
We were up at 8:00 and over to events tent for our final continental breakfast and farewell to new friends before packing up and leaving at 10:30. It was a beautiful sunny day after it had poured rain from 6:30-8:00 AM. We checked into Santa Fe Skies by noon, a lovely big rig park on a rise overlooking the valley floor. We drove into town and had a great all-you-can-eat soup & salad lunch at the Olive Garden. We had planned to take a city trolley tour but had to change plans due to strong winds and pouring rain so instead drove around to different areas of the town and surrounding countryside. We drove down Canyon Street, famous for many galleries. Back to the bus to work on a scrapbook of collected souvenirs.