Hampton Inn North Colorado Springs

... are offered in the many specialty stores, restaurants, and bars. Snowmass features over 3,000 acres of terrain for both snowboarding and skiing and also has a rail yard and a superpipe. Guided nature tours by either ski or snowboard are offered for free. In ...

Today Frank stayed home to make us his famous pork chili. Takes hours of love and we were all grateful. Antonio went for another long marathon training run. Chuck, Hector & Diana went foraging for Jack In The Box, an Apple store and a double feature ;) "Couples Retreat" & "Whip It" both good and more importantly cheap. Only $6.50 and you know we did the 2 fer 1 cause we're geto(boys) like that. Made it back to home base in time to see Dollhouse and feast on dinner. Great day for all.

Alright you Powderhounds - the wait is OVER!!!


Starting this morning at 9:00am Loveland Ski Area will be the first ski area in North America to open for the 2009-2010 ski season. This is the earliest opening day at Loveland Ski Area in 40 years - and we couldn't be more excited ...

... up to the top. It's 19 miles from the base to the top and it was sorta like the drive up to Mt. Evans, minus the extremely narrow road and lack of guardrails! My palms were sweating from time to time and my heart raced at some points in the road where there was nothing, not even a guardrail that separated our car and a 10K+foot plunge to our death! The Smokey Mountains and Appalacian's don't have **** on the Rockies ...

With our van loaded, we traveled to Colorado Springs. Right before the border with Colorado we drove through a thunderstorm. It was something I've never experienced before. The kids were asleep, amazing!
We stayed in the building where Ted's work is. It has a little apartment with a little kitchen and bathroom area.
2 days later it was my birthday. We spent the day in an outdoor swimming pool with Amy and Ella. It was a lot ...

... into the rooms. We spent a good hour or two just walking around the Base, taking pictures. At about 17:00 our friend Kat shows up. I was so excited for that, I didn't see her for 1 1/2 years. She showed up at the perfect time, diner was just about to be put on the table. We had spahgetti, I being me, was really messy. So messy infact that I had to change my top when we went out to the Chapel ...

... blizzard in Denver. When we came last July on our RV trip, there was a hail storm that left 3 inches on the ground. We came back through in mid-October, hurrying through the Rockies ahead of a storm, and then we got snowed on. Finally, we came a Christmas of 2007 and naturally it snowed again. I think we must bring it with us! In any case, it was nice to see the snow way up in the mountains, not up close and person

Michelle says: Well it looks like we were wrong about not taking another road trip for a while! We have been in Colorado for about 10 months now (and love it!) but we have been given an awesome opportunity to work in Antarctica with Raytheon Polar Services...so it looks like we will be packing up the Xterra again and heading back to Florida to store our stuff with family before heading down to the ICE. I wanted to share some of the fun things that we have done in our short time here ...

... in (heaven forbid our own initiation of!) these amazing things. We look for programs or organizations that are already doing pretty good things and see how we can help them out while putting forth the least amount of effort at our own involvement. Is it that we don't believe that We, individually, have been uniquely called and commanded to take initiative and action on behalf of those things that we claim we believe? If we don't believe we are ...

... mostly more sophisticated matching jacket and specialized trailer sort) of balloon teams were beginning to set-up for what looked like a traditional american tail gate party we felt a big awkward at first but quickly realized they were welcoming us into some sort of balloonists society...out came the champage and all the virgins were lined up and told an old and overly dramatized story of balloning at the conclusion of which champage was poured over ...