A Week in the Mountains

Since we've moved back to Louisville we haven't done a very good job of staying put.  I think I've counted about 7 nights that we've slept in our house since we moved in last month.  Our most recent trip was to Colorado to visit Patrick's aunt and uncle.  His parents flew out there with us, and we spent a week enjoying the beautiful weather and hiking in the mountains.  Every time we go to Colorado we wonder why we haven't moved there yet.  It's an amazing place to visit and I know I'd love living there.  I guess for now we'll just have to settle for the occasional visit.

In Boulder we visited the Celestial Seasonsings factory.  (That's the tea company for those of you who aren't big tea drinkers.)  I can't think of anyone who hates tea more than my husband, so poor Patrick didn't have the best time there.  Mom and I enjoyed it though!

Some of our long-time Marine Corps friends Drew and Bri live nearby, so we had a reunion with them after six years apart.  We certainly had a lot to catch up on!

We did plenty of family hiking, which was great exercise, not to mention beautiful!

We spent two nights in Rocky Mountain National Park and hiked all day while we were there.  I wish our pictures could had captured just how wonderful it was.  The mountains and sky just seemed to go on forever.

I was so excited to visit with our friends Dave and Andrea in Estes Park.   They are dear friends from Okinawa, and it was such a blessing to reunite with them and meet their new baby boy!

 This was one of my favorite trails, because there was no one else on it.  So many of the trails in the park were crowded and noisy, so here I really enjoyed the silence of the woods and the peacefulness of a nearby lake.  I thought these tall pines trees were really cool too.

I have to twist Patrick's arm to get him to take goofy pictures like this with me.  Here we are at the Continental Divide.

 It was hard to come back to the heat of Kentucky after the coolness of the mountains, but I suppose it's good to be home.  We have a week to be settled in a bit before we leave for Missouri to visit more family.  The fun just never stops does it?!