Taos ended up being a perfect location for our week away. When we first were planning our trip we'd looked at various towns and Taos had the best and most affordable lodging of where we looked so we settled on that and I'm so glad we did! Our casita that we stayed at was about half a mile from the Taos Plaza, so it was easy to get into town. Our first morning there, we decided to walk downtown to explore after Cooper's nap.
Not a bad view for a walk downtown
There was a park downtown that was a little less than a mile from where we were staying. So we spent some time playing there. Now that Cooper is more mobile, he's become more interested in climbing. We've gone to a few parks at home and he would cautiously climb up. This week he really took off. He climbed all the way to the top of the playground structure by himself several times. And he loved going down the slides!
Playground selfie
After the park, we walked back through the Taos plaza on our way to lunch. We at lunch downtown at a Mexican food restaurant and then headed back to our casita for afternoon nap time.
Tuesday we spent hiking (more on that tomorrow) but Wednesday was another day for exploring Taos. We had originally loosely planned to go up to Colorado on Wednesday to the Great Sand Dunes National Park, but after our hike on Tuesday we decided we'd rather do something more low key and it was perfect. We drove to get breakfast at Michael's Kitchen downtown and then spent some more time at the park. Cooper loved walking and exploring everything!
When we were walking around downtown on Monday we had seen this play structure and looked it up. It ended up being part of Twirl which is a free play area in downtown Taos. We went to check it out Wednesday after morning nap and it was so cool. I love this picture of him looking up at the play structure--I know soon he'll be running around in something like that, but this day he just took it all in.
Through a gate they had another play area complete with a climbing structure, sandbox, blocks, and lots of "musical instruments" like a variety of wrenches you could bang on, polls with washers to slide against and make noise, and a big row of wood hollowed out that made different tones.
One of the coolest parts of the trip was watching Cooper explore new things and for all of us to see what he was capable of. The playground he usually climbs has lots of steps which he's used to, this "ladder" into the playhouse seemed like it would be way too difficult for him, but we decided to try it anyway. David helped him get over the straight vertical part and then he climbed the rest of the way.
And was so proud of himself when he got to the top! Twirl also had an upstairs playroom with lots of cool toys. It was such a neat place! We definitely could have spent a lot longer there, but we headed on to get lunch before afternoon naptime.
Cooper's ride for the week. I found a used umbrella stroller on Facebook marketplace so that we had something that folded down smaller to not take up as much of our cargo space. It was perfect for the week!
We ate breakfast at the house most days and tried to eat sandwiches for lunch or dinner each day, but we did still get to try out a few fun restaurants. One of them was 5 star burgers a little South of downtown. The food was really good and we sat on the patio with a view of the mountains.
Thursday was our last full day in Taos, so we spent the morning at the park again. We walked to a different park that was actually closer to our casita-- only about half a mile. Cooper played on the playground and then enjoyed walking around looking at all the dogs that were out there on walks.
Our last night we went out to dinner at Orlando's which was a recommended Mexican food restaurant. It was very good and we're glad we checked it out! It was a great way to end our trip!
We also got to spend quite a bit of time at the casita. Traveling with a little guy can be hard because you have to plan around his naps, etc. but it also gave us all built in downtime each day. So David and I played a lot of games during naptime. We would watch movies or shows at night and we did lots of reading.
One night we went outside and read on our patio before the sun went down. Pretty great view from the little table.
The weather was pretty perfect the entire week. The lows were in the 30s and 40s, but it would warm up pretty quickly to the highs in the 60s and 70s. It made for a great week exploring the outdoors!
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