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About the Episode
We are re-sharing one of our favorite holiday episodes. Next time you’re in Santa Fe be sure to check out the The Shop – A Christmas Store near the plaza.
In this episode of the “I Love New Mexico” podcast, host Bunny Terry chats with Janice and Rick Griego, co-owners of the Christmas Shop in Santa Fe. The Griegos share their journey of running the shop since 1983, highlighting its unique New Mexico-themed ornaments and crafts. They emphasize their collaboration with local artists, such as David Gallegos, who creates replicas of historic missions. The episode delves into the shop’s role as a year-round destination, its nostalgic holiday items, and the deep community connections that define both their business and New Mexico’s culture.
Links
The Shop Website
I Love New Mexico blog page
Bunny’s website
I Love New Mexico Instagram
I Love New Mexico Facebook
Original Music by: Kene Terry
Featuring:
Janice and Rick, Owners of The Shop
Keeping Christmas in Santa Fe, Since 1977
In addition to the traditional and modern-themed ornaments by well-known makers from around the globe, Rick and Janice have been working for years with as many as 45 local artists who create unique decorations just for The Shop. Please stop by when you are visiting Santa Fe. We really enjoy meeting new people at The Shop – A Christmas Store. We hope you enjoy your visit to our online store. In 2020, we’ll celebrate our 43rd year!
Transcript
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Bunny 00:00:00 Hi there, I’m Bunny Terry and you’re listening to the I Love New Mexico podcast. Whether you’re a native New Mexican who’s lived here for your entire life or you’re just considering a visit, this episode is for you. Join us as we share a lot of New Mexico stories, talk about all things New Mexico, and include topics like what’s magical here, where you ought to visit, what’s happening, and the things you absolutely cannot miss in the Land of Enchantment. We’re excited that you’re here, and we can’t wait to show you what an amazing place in New Mexico is. Because, let’s face it, I love New Mexico. Here at the I Love New Mexico podcast, we love to do stories that are timely and and sometimes we want to do stories that are evergreen that you can listen to any time of the year. And I’m telling you, although this is a podcast with Janice and Rick Griego, who are the owners of the Christmas shop in Santa Fe. it’s also evergreen because they’re open year round.
Bunny 00:01:15 And, Janice and Rick, you’ve been doing this for a while. It’s Christmas every day at your house, right?
Janice 00:01:23 Yes it is.
Bunny 00:01:26 How long have you been doing this?
Rick 00:01:30 Since, well, 40 years. Since 83, 1983.
Bunny 00:01:35 Wow. Wow. Where? Where did the idea come from? I’m so curious.
Rick 00:01:42 Well, when we finished, when we finished college down in Las Cruces, we were at New Mexico State. That’s where I met Janice. and we finished, and we came back home. And, of course, jobs were very scarce at the time because of the, the economy. So there was the shop was already open. It was open in 77 by Ed Berry. And so the opportunity came up to own the store. So we basically took it. as we joke, we still trying to find what we’re going to do after college 40 years later.
Bunny 00:02:15 That’s so cool. Now, are both of you from New Mexico? I’m curious how you ended up at New Mexico State.
Janice 00:02:23 I grew up in Albuquerque. Yeah, I was born and raised in Albuquerque. And then Rick was born and raised here in Santa Fe.
Bunny 00:02:31 And tell me what year you went 40 years ago. When was that? We may have been there at the same time.
Rick 00:02:37 1980. Well, we finished in 1983.
Janice 00:02:39 1983 is when we finished.
Rick 00:02:41 It was so was in May of 1983 when we finished.
Bunny 00:02:45 So I went to New Mexico State in September of 1978.
Janice 00:02:51 Okay, okay. So you we were there at the same time. Same time. Wow. That’s when I started. Yeah. Did you live in Garcia Hall? No, I lived in WRC.
Bunny 00:03:00 Oh, okay.
Janice 00:03:02 Cool.
Bunny 00:03:02 Cool.
Janice 00:03:03 Well.
Rick 00:03:04 Yeah, I lived in Garcia for one semester, and that was enough.
Bunny 00:03:09 So I want. So that’s so funny, because I love to do this. when we, you know, we have a lot of guests, a lot of not guests, but a lot of people who are listening, who are not from New Mexico and maybe have never been here.
Bunny 00:03:23 And, you know, I have listeners who are from all over the world. And I think it’s worth saying that, you know, when we grew up, New Mexico was a small state. I mean, it’s still a small state, population wise. But wasn’t it less than a million people when we went to college? What did New Mexico.
Janice 00:03:42 I mean, definitely, yeah, definitely.
Rick 00:03:44 Was Las Cruces at the time when we were there, was with a school in session, I think it was 42,000 people in Las Cruces. And when it was out of session, it was like 28 or 29,000 people. So you took about 30. You took about 13,000 people, students out of the equation in the summer, and Las Cruces, if you remember, in the summers we we were there one summer to take some classes, a couple of classes, and it was it was pretty much a ghost town.
Janice 00:04:13 I think campus was very.
Rick 00:04:15 Yeah, campus was a ghost town.
Bunny 00:04:17 And it was the summer that Princess Diana married Prince Charles.
Bunny 00:04:22 That’s that’s the that’s the year that I was there for the summer, and I lived over. It was.
Janice 00:04:27 Yeah, it was, it was. Yeah.
Bunny 00:04:29 That’s so funny. so we were there at the same time, and, I think I lived what was the athletic dorm, I can’t remember. That was where they put us in the summertime.
Rick 00:04:42 what was that? I don’t even know if it’s still there.
Bunny 00:04:46 it’s probably not. It was like a it was like a hotel motel six. But how cool is that? So. So if you’re listening and you’ve never been to New Mexico, you should know that we’re all separated by, like, one degree of separation if we’re from here, don’t you think? I mean.
Janice 00:05:01 Oh, yeah. Definitely.
Rick 00:05:02 We. Yeah, you. In fact, when when customers come in that are from New Mexico, especially from northern New Mexico, the more you talk to them, you end up finding, you know, we might be distant cousins, right? We might be.
Rick 00:05:15 We’re related somehow or, you know, somebody that.
Janice 00:05:20 Is related, related, somebody that, you know, just.
Rick 00:05:23 Like, yes, yesterday, yesterday morning we had a couple come in, a brother and sister. And as we were talking, we found out that they grew up here. They were part of the hash family, and their mother was my fourth grade teacher. And so we kept talking. Yeah. So it was, so if almost every day somebody comes in.
Janice 00:05:45 Something, somebody comes in or that knows either knows someone in Albuquerque that I know or that he might be related to or because growing up in Santa Fe, he knew a lot more people because it was a lot smaller. Albuquerque was, you know, the big city. So we didn’t know as many. You know, it wasn’t as tight knit as. But yeah, there’s always somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.
Bunny 00:06:14 That is so cool. So, Rick, where did you go to elementary school?
Rick 00:06:18 I went to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Rick 00:06:21 Oh, okay. Still open as a Catholic school. So we went to school there. And then when they closed the school down, unfortunately, most of the kids scattered to different schools, and I, I went to Saint Mike’s after that because that was the seventh grade when I was going in. so. But yeah, we grew up at, in the area, and we went to school at Our Lady of Guadalupe. And interesting thing about it is, is we my mother had gone to school there. I had an aunt that had taught there at one time before she moved to California. So we still we still keep in somewhat keep not really personally contact, but a lot of the kids that I went to school with and I shouldn’t say kids, I mean, we’re all older now, but they they some of them still come into the shop. We still contact keeping contact with them. one particular guy, Arturo Montano, we call him Tootie. He’s a, an artist, a Spanish colonial artist, and he does wood carvings and bone carvings.
Rick 00:07:17 So we used to meet up at Spanish Market all the time. And when at his booth, it almost turned out to be a school reunion because all of us had gone to school together, would sort of meet there at some time during the day. And it was, you know, you reminiscing, reminisce about what things that we had done and, and don’t admit to.
Bunny 00:07:38 No, no, that’s so cool. Well, my husband, the only reason I ask is that my husband’s mom was the secretary at Salazar Elementary. And I’ll still run. Oh, really? Okay. Who? Remember? Mrs. Anderson, but that is so cool. And, Janice, where did you go to high school? In in Albuquerque.
Janice 00:07:55 I went to Sandia Diego High School.
Bunny 00:07:58 See, it’s such a tiny, tiny, tiny world. so I want, you guys. And for folks who. And we may, you know, we may. This is all audio right this minute, but this may end up on YouTube as a video.
Bunny 00:08:14 you guys are in the background are how how many Christmas trees do you have in there?
Rick 00:08:21 We got about I don’t know, I lost count. I think we’ve we take we put up and take down small trees. So total we’ve got about 45, 40, 45 about 45 trees.
Bunny 00:08:34 And I came in the other day and I was taking pictures because you have a lot of trees that are very specific to New Mexico, either with New Mexico themed ornaments or artists from New Mexico. Right.
Rick 00:08:47 Right. Yeah. That’s our, our our main, our, our main emphasis has always been New Mexico crafted locally owned, locally crafted ornaments, figurines on nativities, things like that, that so we can showcase. We got some great New Mexico artists that we’ve had for years now. We have one particular artist, David Gallegos, who does replicas of our missions in New Mexico, and David grew up in Fria Street, and David is, he’s 85 years old, and we’ve had his work, what, 40, about almost 40 years.
Janice 00:09:28 Yeah, maybe a little longer than that.
Rick 00:09:29 Longer than that. And he’s still he’s still doing them and still sends them to us. He doesn’t do quite as many as he used to because he concentrates on, the more popular, churches. At one point he was doing about 23 churches. Now we’re down to probably about 12, but he concentrates on those that are more popular from, like the cathedral here, Loretto Chapel, San Miguel, Guadalupe Cristo Crystal Ray, those churches, and up north, like the Santiago de Chimayo, the church in Taos Pueblo and the church in Ranchos at Taos. So it it’s fun over the years having David around because he he’s been with us the longest. The unfortunate thing about it, though, is that we unfortunately have lost some of the artists that are have been elder. They have passed away. so but it’s always been our emphasis to concentrate on handcrafted, locally crafted items because we’re, we’re in a very fortunate position and where we live is we’ve got a lot of, a lot of artists and there’s a lot of, people out there doing just things.
Janice 00:10:43 It’s a Mecca, as you know, Mecca of artists. And we’re blessed to be able to have them do ornaments and, you know, and figurines and nativities for us.
Bunny 00:10:54 Well. So I have the, I, I have the mission. I have the, I have that ornament, and I bought it when my kids were little. I bought it when I lived in Albuquerque, and I came up with a friend, and, because I raised my kids in Albuquerque, although I grew up over by Tucumcari in Logan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now many people say, oh, yeah, when I say Logan.
Rick 00:11:22 My, well know my my grandfather was from Tucumcari.
Bunny 00:11:25 Yeah. Shut the light.
Bunny 00:11:26 Wow, it’s so cool.
Bunny 00:11:30 He was from.
Bunny 00:11:30 What’s his last name? Griego.
Rick 00:11:32 No, his last name was Montoya. Yeah.
Bunny 00:11:34 Okay. Okay. Well, somebody from Tucumcari is going to say. Oh, yeah. Rick is my cousin.
Bunny 00:11:40 Yeah, true.
Bunny 00:11:44 So, I came up with a friend, like, in October, and, you know, that was when I could hardly pay the light bill.
Bunny 00:11:51 And I came into the store, and I saw that ornament, and it still is. you know, it’s one of those things. When we put the tree up, my kids notice it. So maybe, maybe a good gift for them would be for me to come and pick up a couple of those. You still have some of his work.
Janice 00:12:07 We do.
Bunny 00:12:07 We do, we do. Yeah. Nice. Yeah.
Bunny 00:12:10 So nice.
Janice 00:12:11 He’s, We just wait. He does it on his own now. You know, basically, we put an order in and just say, get him to us when you can, because.
Rick 00:12:19 He’s, you know, he at 85, he slowed down a bit. We don’t we’re not going.
Janice 00:12:23 To pressure him to bring.
Rick 00:12:24 Them. He sends them up about once every maybe three weeks. Every four weeks.
Janice 00:12:28 He’s living in Albuquerque now. Yeah. So wow.
Bunny 00:12:31 And those are they’re carved, aren’t they?
Rick 00:12:35 Yeah. It’s all it’s all wood. Except for, like, the crosses on the pieces are are screen door wire that he cuts up and.
Rick 00:12:42 Yeah. And each one is he does it. He does this all on his own.
Janice 00:12:45 Each one is hand-painted.
Bunny 00:12:47 Yeah.
Bunny 00:12:48 Wow, wow. And I don’t think they’re crazy expensive, are they?
Janice 00:12:56 No, they’re very reasonable for the.
Rick 00:12:58 For the work he does. No, no, for the work he does. They’re not very, very expensive. You know, our one of one of the things that we’ve tried to pride ourselves on or do pride ourselves on is when artists come in and they, they show us some of the work that they’re doing. we’ll usually try it out. We’ll try maybe a dozen or two, a couple, 2 or 3 dozen to really give us a good mix of what they’re doing. But we’ve always worked at trying to make it affordable for people from all, from all walks of life. And that’s what we’ve always strived for, and they’ve always been agreeable on the prices that they have. And of course, over the years, materials go up. Their time is a little bit more valuable.
Rick 00:13:43 So they do raise the prices. But we’ve always tried to to keep our prices low to to hit anybody’s pocketbook, whether it’s a kid that comes in that’s five years old and has a couple of dollars. We’ll, you know, we’ll we’ll have something.
Janice 00:13:57 We’ll have something for.
Rick 00:13:57 Them, you know. So. And then now these kids that came in when they were children or babies, now they’re bringing in their. That’s how old we are. They’re bringing in their own babies.
Bunny 00:14:09 That’s what that’s how old we are. Sort of. How old is the.
Rick 00:14:12 Eye opening think, oh my God, I, I, I think I’ve.
Bunny 00:14:15 Been doing this. It is time.
Rick 00:14:17 You know, when people come out of the shop, they’ll they’ll come to the shop and get in front of the counter and we’re behind the counter and they look at you and go, you’re still here.
Bunny 00:14:25 You’re still here. Yes, we’re still here. We’re still here.
Bunny 00:14:31 I like that, and what do you think? I mean, I know that you do a lot of, balloon themes as well because you during Balloon Fiesta, but got to be one of your busiest times.
Bunny 00:14:42 What what do you think is the most popular thing you sell?
Rick 00:14:48 well, the most popular thing we sell is the locally crafted ornaments. But if it’s one individual piece, one I would have. It would be a toss up between. In the balloons. It would be the New Mexico.
Janice 00:15:05 New Mexico balloon.
Rick 00:15:06 That has on.
Janice 00:15:07 It the state flag.
Rick 00:15:09 And then in our local Richardson.
Janice 00:15:13 Yeah, but but the alien is pretty. Oh, yeah.
Rick 00:15:15 The alien. We have the alien ship and the alien balloon.
Bunny 00:15:17 I saw that and. Yeah.
Janice 00:15:19 So those are very popular. Yeah, because a lot of people traveled throughout New Mexico, and Roswell happens to be one of the stops. So they. That reminds them of their trip to Roswell, too.
Rick 00:15:33 And then it’s interesting. We’ll talk. We’ll talk to people and they’ll start exchanging stories about some of the things that they saw in the sky that they couldn’t identify. And so we start saying, well, you know, we’ve we’ve seen a few things in our life up here in northern New Mexico, up in the mountains that.
Bunny 00:15:50 Oh, yeah.
Rick 00:15:51 You know.
Bunny 00:15:51 I can’t explain.
Rick 00:15:52 You can’t explain it. So hey, you know.
Bunny 00:15:54 So.
Rick 00:15:55 That’s fun.
Bunny 00:15:56 But.
Rick 00:15:57 And then in our locally crafted, we have an artist by the name of Richard Gabriel. And he grew up in questa, but he lives in the city now, just south of to Harris. He’s the one that does the tin work for us. And Richard, Richard’s tin work is probably our best seller because of the price points. it’s very affordable. So.
Janice 00:16:21 And Richard teaches tin working, at the community college, Santa Fe Community College, the continuing education. So he we get a lot of his students that come into that are looking for items. And just as sometimes we have Richard come in and do a demonstration and he has his own little, we call them his groupies that come in to to say hi, etc., etc. but it’s fun because he teaches kids how to do it too. And it’s it’s just something that we like to have him come in and.
Rick 00:16:54 Do, like he, every year he goes out to Indianapolis because he at the Idol George Museum in Indianapolis. They have it’s like a Spanish colonial week. So they have also inclusive in that week is dead or dead. So when he’s out there, he does demonstrations and talks and so on. But this year, one of the things that they do is they take him to schools. And this year they took him to the school for the blind. And he taught some of these, these kids how to do tin work. Yeah. And he was kind of concerned at first. He didn’t know what to expect. And he said it was it was so easy to teach him. And he had a fun time. And Richard is he’s six three, very soft spoken. He’s like a gentle giant. And during these busy seasons like Balloon Fiesta and, Thanksgiving weekend, you’ll see him. He comes and helps us out here in the shop.
Janice 00:17:48 He works at the shop for us? Yeah, he helps us out.
Bunny 00:17:51 He helps us out.
Rick 00:17:52 And he’s a and he. Yeah.
Bunny 00:17:55 So who’s who is it that makes the angels. Because I always buy those angels for everybody.
Janice 00:18:02 The the woods and angels.
Bunny 00:18:05 Yes.
Janice 00:18:06 So that’s Larry Hotchkiss who makes those.
Bunny 00:18:09 Oh, okay. Okay. Because I, frequently when somebody’s moving into new house, I’ll get I’ll get an angel that they can hang on the wall. And I gave one to my mom, who recently passed away, and she was like, this is one of my favorite gifts ever. Oh.
Bunny 00:18:25 Yeah.
Bunny 00:18:25 And and then I saw that you have a bunch of, You don’t. I mean, we’re not just talking Christmas ornaments. You have a lot of beautiful, nativity sets.
Bunny 00:18:36 Yes.
Rick 00:18:38 Those on our local nativities. We have a family from Jemez Pueblo that’s seniors and Loretta’s, that we started with Carol and And yeah, again, 40 years ago. Unfortunately, Mrs. Leonia passed away about 15 years ago. But in that period of time, she had two daughters, a daughter in law and granddaughter.
Rick 00:19:02 Now we’ve got like 3 or 4 granddaughters and 3 or 4 great granddaughters and grand.
Bunny 00:19:08 And then.
Rick 00:19:08 Now one of her great grandsons.
Bunny 00:19:11 Is starting to.
Rick 00:19:12 Do work for us, you know, so that that’s the clay nativities that we have from him is then we have an artist from Albuquerque. Frank who does the the gourd nativities out of gourds. We have her, we have Anita Ortiz from Albuquerque who does the fusion glass nativities. And then we have Gina Hennig, who does the horsehair pottery, Nativity.
Bunny 00:19:38 and then.
Janice 00:19:38 Larry does, and then.
Rick 00:19:39 Larry. Larry who does the angels. He does the driftwood nativities for us. So we’re always looking for something different and new as far as the Nativity is concerned. And then of course we got the nativities from. We have nativities from Mexico out of clay and out of tin. we have an artist from. We have a gentleman from Guadalajara, Sergio Portas, and we’ve been carrying his clay nativities since about 1990. we have another Sergio Sergio’s advantage.
Rick 00:20:06 Who’s who? We get ten from ten nativities. He’s from also from Guadalajara. And we’ve had his work. What about 20 years? About 20 years, probably.
Bunny 00:20:16 Yeah.
Rick 00:20:17 And then we have, of course, then we have the. The nativity is done by the manufacturers. We have the Fontana Nativities from Italy. so we have a whole variety of nativities.
Bunny 00:20:27 And.
Rick 00:20:28 All shapes and forms.
Bunny 00:20:30 And so and, and, and I don’t want, you know, if somebody isn’t looking for, local arts, but they’re interested. I mean, you have everything. I went in there one time because I bought a, aluminum Christmas tree from, eBay back in the Pew in the 90s, I think. And you had a color wheel, which is what I had in the first grade.
Bunny 00:20:54 Color wheel? Yes, we still do. Do you remember when your teacher had an.
Bunny 00:20:58 Aluminum tree in the in the first, first and second grade and there was a color wheel. Do you remember that? Yeah.
Janice 00:21:03 We and we still have those. We carry those. In fact.
Rick 00:21:06 We just hold on to. who is it, David?
Janice 00:21:10 I don’t know who we sold it to.
Rick 00:21:11 I think we sold. We we just sold one to David Griego, the the jeweler on the plaza here.
Bunny 00:21:16 Uhhuh.
Rick 00:21:16 He’s got a he’s got a silver tree. So he, we told him, well, we have a color wheel, so we picked up a color wheel. So we still.
Bunny 00:21:24 Care. That’s so.
Bunny 00:21:25 Cool. Lights.
Janice 00:21:26 And that’s the thing, too, is that we have a lot of things that. Are they nostalgic for people like the bubble lights, the color. Right? What else? The candle. Well, we don’t have candle clips anymore. Yeah, those are hard to find.
Bunny 00:21:41 But the old C.
Rick 00:21:42 79 bulbs, Cc9 C7, the.
Bunny 00:21:45 Old outdoor.
Janice 00:21:46 Outdoor lights. It’s that.
Bunny 00:21:48 Yeah. Oh, wow.
Rick 00:21:49 People still use them. Yeah.
Bunny 00:21:52 So when I was a kid, we had bubble lights.
Bunny 00:21:55 That’s. Those were the lights we had on our Christmas tree. And so, I collected some and I know I bought some from you probably about 20 years ago. And then. And then I moved somewhere and I forgot a box of Christmas decorations. So I need to stock up again on bubble lights. I can’t believe I lost all my bubble lights. So you have them, right?
Janice 00:22:19 We have them. Yes we do.
Bunny 00:22:21 So we talked about before we begin, you know, this is dropping on the 19th of December, so if somebody needs something special, they can come in the store. Where are you located?
Rick 00:22:37 We’re at 116 East Palace Avenue.
Bunny 00:22:40 Okay, so you’re just a half a block east of the plaza to the.
Janice 00:22:44 Plaza, right?
Bunny 00:22:45 You’re like, sort of between.
Bunny 00:22:46 The plaza and the cathedral.
Bunny 00:22:48 Yeah. Yeah. Correct.
Janice 00:22:49 Yeah. Across the street. Sort of. From the.
Bunny 00:22:52 Shed. From the shed.
Rick 00:22:54 Did you tell people that shed restaurant. That’s a that’s a land landmark.
Bunny 00:22:58 So. Right, right, right. They know that most.
Janice 00:23:01 People will find us.
Bunny 00:23:03 And what what is your website?
Janice 00:23:06 The website is the shop christmas.com.
Bunny 00:23:10 And we’ll put that link is it is in the show notes. I just want folks to know that if they decide to go to the website and order something, they’re going to have to do special shipping to get it by Christmas, right?
Janice 00:23:23 Yeah, more than likely. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
Bunny 00:23:27 Okay.
Janice 00:23:27 A lot of times. And then we can always if they see something on the website, they could, they could always call us and, and we can take their order over the phone too. And that way we can get them the exact shipping cost if it has to be. You hate to say it, but overnighted, You know, a lot of times that was going to be more expensive. But we can do that. Yeah.
Bunny 00:23:51 Okay. Well, this is this is so much fun because I’ve, I’ve been in your shop, I don’t know, dozens of times.
Bunny 00:24:00 And I it’s always really hard for me to choose. You do have a Marty the moose ornament, right?
Janice 00:24:07 We do, but we’re getting low on it right now. Oh, Richard. Richard Gabriel is the one who did Marty the moose ornament for us. And it’s not on our website because we have. We’re getting low on stock. He’s out of town for a couple of days, but we’ll be getting more in, probably on.
Rick 00:24:28 Maybe.
Bunny 00:24:29 Saturday, Friday or Saturday. Saturday.
Bunny 00:24:32 I thought that was hilarious when I saw it.
Bunny 00:24:34 Go ahead. Yeah. No.
Rick 00:24:37 Richard. Yeah. He had, we gave him that idea, and he came up with this neat little moose, and it says 2023 on it.
Bunny 00:24:44 So that’s the best one for this year. I think that’s hilarious. Thank you so much for being on the podcast. I’m probably going to walk down and see you this afternoon.
Bunny 00:24:53 Yeah. Okay. Well thank you.
Janice 00:24:55 Thank you for having us.
Bunny 00:24:56 Thank you. Yeah.
Rick 00:24:56 That was it was pretty neat.
Rick 00:24:58 It was cool. Yeah.
Bunny 00:24:59 We could probably talk.
Janice 00:24:59 For a long time. Yeah.
Bunny 00:25:01 We could, we could.
Bunny 00:25:03 We’ll do it again next year. We’ll do it in the middle of the summer. We’ll talk about Christmas in July. How about that?
Janice 00:25:08 There you go.
Bunny 00:25:08 Yeah. Yeah.
Janice 00:25:09 Okay. I hear you around. Yes.
Bunny 00:25:11 Thank you so much.
Janice 00:25:13 Thank you.
Bunny 00:25:15 Thanks. Thanks to all of you for taking the time to listen to my Lovely Mexico podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please, please feel feel free to share it with your friends. So social media.
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