Trip to Detroit to pick up the car

Well, we made it back from Detroit after a couple long days of driving. Things worked out great with the new car and we're excited about it. The trip to Michigan was pretty brutal. We left Denver at 12:45am on Friday morning, got into Detroit at 5:30am and met up with our guy to get the car at 8. Took care of business and hit the road at about 10. We made the 9 hour drive across Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and found a place to stay in Des Moines, Iowa for the night. We were both surprised at how nice Michigan was. We had always heard about how cold the winters are in Michigan, but that was about it. There were a lot of trees and lakes and it was very green. The trees were changing colors and we got to see some beautiful scenery as we made the drive toward Chicago.



After we made it out of that area and entered the plain states, we decided that the name 'plain' was appropriate. Not much to look at besides dead corn fields. So, we watched a couple movies on the laptop, listened to music and talked the rest of the trip away.

We got a chance to go visit some friends that just had twins recently and they were sporting some very nice blankets courtesy of Abby's grandma. Everybody says twins are a lot of work but we don't believe it...every time we go visit the twins just sleep the whole time. I think that maybe that's all they do.



Some of our other friends have a bouncing new baby boy that arrived this weekend. He is a pretty good looking little guy and also seems to do a lot of sleeping. It was a nice weekend, now back to work!

Relaxing Fall Weekend

This weekend was nice...we're between boating season and snowboard season and so for a few weekends in the fall and spring we get to relax. We got the boat shut down for the season on Saturday and did all the winterization that we needed to for it and then Saturday night we went to the Colin and Brad show at the Buell Theatre. These are the guys from Whose Line Is It Anyway? It was a good time. We went with Kyle and Melody, had dinner and then laughed for about 4 hours. Good times.


That's about all the excitement for this week. Thursday we head out to Detroit to pick up Abby's new ride...here are a couple pics...

Weekend with Family

This weekend Megan and Kasey came out to visit and we had a good time exploring some of the sights of Colorado and just visiting since it had been a while. After hearing about all the Vegas hotel adventures (we'll just say it involved fire alarms, bed bugs and the middle of the night)...it's not worth it to find a cheap place to sleep in Vegas :-)

Friday we headed out to White Ranch and did some hiking up the canyon and got to check out some of the cool HUGE houses out there. It turned out to be quite a bit warmer this weekend than anybody had anticipated it was going to be and so we got pretty warm on the hike. Kona looked like she was about to die a few times and acted like she didn't even enjoy the hike (yeah right, we know she did).

That evening we headed downtown to check things out down there and visit a restaurant called Earls that we found on 16th street. It is a great combination of inexpensive, good food and right in the middle of the action on 16th street making it a fun place to hang out for a few hours.

Saturday we had grandiose plans of heading up to the mountains and checking out all the cool Aspens (since it is prime season for it) and see the chaning colors. Well, we had a good time, but it amounted to more of a drive through the hills and a lot of Aspens with no leaves. I guess the snow last weekend pretty well made them drop most of what was left. We saw a few though and had a good time hanging out in Breckenridge for a couple hours. It was nice being up there and being able to walk around in shorts. We don't get up there too often in the summer when it's warm.






Saturday evening we were pretty well worn out, so we cooked up some steaks and relaxed for the evening. We saw the movie 'Next' which had some clever ideas in it and was about this guy that could see into the future, but had kind of a lame ending.




Sunday we went to church, grabbed some breakfast and they were back off to the airport. It was a nice visit. Hopefully we'll be able to do more of these in the future with them visiting us or us heading out there. Maybe one of these days we'll all live in the same area :-)