Colorado Vaca.

Our latest adventure took us to Colorado. Jamie and Bryce are living there this summer while Bryce does an internship with Lockheed/Martin.

First stop on Friday was "Garden of the Gods" it is spectacular. We love the beautiful red rocks.

Bryce and Jamie are great tour guides. They've seen just about everything in Colorado Springs.

Brenda did some walking with all our sight seeing.

Manitou Springs was very close after seeing "Garden of the Gods". It is the home of several springs that pop up all over town.

On Saturday we headed north for Denver, but stopped in Castle Rock to visit the outlet stores. We found lots of great deals and spent some $$$$$. Then it was on to Coors Field for a Rockies game. It is a beautiful stadium and a lot of fun. The Rockies aren't the Dodgers but I love a baseball game.

After church on Sunday we took a driving tour of the Air Force Academy. The Visitors Center was closed, but we drove through campus and were very impressed.

The football stadium is located far away from the athletic area where it can be seen from all over. It looks like a great place to see a football game.

On Monday Bryce left for a retreat with the other interns in Virginia and Jamie continued our tour. This is the old El Paso County court house. It has a museum now, which is closed on Mondays.

Next we went to the Olympic training center. We had a great tour led by a member of the modern petahalon team. They compete in five events including fencing,
shooting,running, swimming, and horsemanship.

Tueday we took the train to Pike's Peak. What a fun way to go to the top of Colorado.


Fourteen thousand feet where we could see forever.

Cabin Fever

Perry finally got his four-wheeler. I made him buy a helmet so we could be safe. He took me for a ride. It was so fun to have a ride around the area of Timberlakes.

Because of all the rain this summer the lakes are really full. There is a lot of standing water and many more ponds this year. It was so green. Summer is just barely coming this year.

The wild flowers are just starting to bloom. In a few weeks they will be blooming!

We took Erin and Dan up with us. Also Wayne and his amazing dog Jack came up. It was nice to have Wayne's Rhino which is so much fun. Jack would run right along with us. He never seemed to get tired. Wherever we went he went running. He sure is Wayne's partner. We watched a few movies, did some cleaning, and had some dutch oven food of course. It was nice for Erin and Dan to get away. We took a nice ride up by Daniel's where Erin and Dan are going to walk on a pioneer trek in a few weeks.

We like to keep moving in the summer. Maybe it's Cabin Fever. We saw fireworks with Erin and Dan. It was a nice weekend.

Florida Fun

This is Megan and Josh at St. Augustine Beach. We spent a few hours driving to St. Augustine

and a few hours looking around. This is the oldest city in the USA. We went to an old fort and had lunch at one of the resturants there. We met Bryan, Andrea, and Breanna Harper at Olive Graden for dinner in Ocala. They were sweet enough to come and see us. We really miss them in our neighborhood. It was so nice to see them again. They live in Orlando. Breanna was 3 when they moved.

This is Rainbow Springs a beautiful natural springs outside of Ocala by Dunnelon. This is a roped off part of the river. They say the water is warm. It sure was blue.

One of the hundreds of horse farms in Ocala in Marion county. The barns were like our churches. These are very expensive farms that go for miles around.

We took a carriage ride with Duke and Dan. We traveled down the country roads to see the horse farms. It was amazing to see such amazing farms. We know now where all the expensive racing horse are raised. We met a lady who owned one of those ranches. She was on her way to Philadelphia to buy around 15 horses and drive them home with her husband. It is big business there.

One day we traveled hours to the Kennedy Space Center. What a amazing place to visit
This flag is the size of a football field. These are massive buildings to hold the space shuttle.
This is the space shuttle assembly building.

This is a fountain outside of Megan's apartment. It was a beautiful place called the Estates at Heathbrook.