La Quinta Inn & Suites Colorado Springs South/Airport

The adventure begins! We closed up the house, packed the computer, loaded the car and headed to Colorado Springs. After running a few errands, we took Skippy to a park so that he could run and play and we could spend some quality time with the little guy. We went to dinner and then ...

... 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!!!<br><br>&#8232;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 ...

... Lots of little mom and pop places...its just extremely charming and I wish we could've spent a couple days staying in that area. Anyways, although not the tallest, P.P. is the most famous mountain in Colorado. It is the summit known as the inspiration for the song "American the Beautiful." Kathleen Bates, a rich tourist, got the top of the mountain and was so taken aback, she wrote the song! It took us about an hour to ...

Afterward Garden of the Gods we headed off to Manitou Springs where we scouted out some of the natural springs and sampled some of the water...pretty gross tasting if you ask me! Althought I despised the taste I still insisted on having my picture taken as I sampled the spring water ...

... fun. In the evening Julia got a fever and in the night it got worse with throwing up and hallucinations. Ted went with her to the hospital (in case of the schwine flu, we didn't take the risk) She was dehydrated and she had a form of altitude sickness. She was fine a day later and she loved her hospital bracelet, which stayed on her arm for 3 weeks. <br>On the 28th of July my parents came to Denver. We picked them up in the evening ...

... practicing their marches: Next it was off to Focus on the Family for a little tour. Then I went to Garden of the Gods. It was absolutely beautiful: There were many people walking around and climbing on the rocks. Next I went to the olympic training facilities. Here olympic athletes live and train ...

... corners in every village and city. A country where many people bow to each other as a conscious act of honoring the divinity within us all. My spiritual imagination, a thing that I thought had died many years ago, was suddenly brought back to vibrant life. Honestly, I have more fears about this trip than I want to admit. When I went to Prague a few years ago I discovered the true meaning of the term "culture-shock". I can only imagine ...

... the Broadmoor. We hiked up about twenty minutes to a reservoir. The reservoir was really pretty. The dogs, Sage (a yellow lab) and Sylvie (boykin spaniel) loved it. We threw tennis balls for them to fetch. The only problem was Sage got a little bloated from drinking the water. It was a fun morning hike for both us and the dogs ...