Today we visited Bryce Canyon, and it is an amazing place. We stopped at a couple of places for pictures, and hiked down into the canyon on a 1.3 mile loop. The hike took us past some very cool structures, as we walked down pretty steeply about 500 feet, and then of course the same distance back up. We then had a nice dinner at the lodge, and stopped by a couple more scenic overlooks before driving to our campground for the night. Pictures later.
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Camping Redux
Tonight we are in Green River State Park, Utah. We made it out of Colorado (sadly), and on to our first night of four consecutive camping nights. We will be here one night only, then two nights at the next site, between Bryce and Zion, then a fourth night on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. After that, a night in a lodge on the south rim, then on to Flagstaff, Arizona to visit with Susan’s cousins and aunt.
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Ketchup
I’ve been playing catch up with the photos on Flickr. If you go to my page of “Collections” you will see the Collection for this trip, and in it, the many sets I’ve organized thus far. Still more to go, and hopefully I’ll keep up with current work in the future, although after tonight we have four nights of camping, so who knows…
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18 Years Ago Today
Susan and I were married in Belmont, Massachusetts! Happy Anniversary to us!
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Lazy On A Sunday Afternoon
In spite of the occasional threat of rain and thunder/lightning, we had a lovely, lazy Sunday afternoon here in Colorado. Uncle Mark and Aunt Rosa came home from church with us,
and we enjoyed some family time together. Around mid-afternoon, Nina, Mike, and their boys, Harry and Jack came over and we headed over to the pool. No more than two minutes after most of the kids got in the pool, the lifeguard shooed us out due to lightning in the sky. We waited a while, and the kids played Mother May I to pass the time,
but it just didn’t seem promising, so we went back to Rowell Ranch for a spell. About an hour later, we headed back to the pool and got some swimming in.
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A Tale of Two Calvaries
Our home church is Calvary Church, United Methodist, but when we visit Susan’s folks, we worship at their church — Calvary Baptist Church of Denver. Their church is a large, vibrant congregation with all kinds of activities going on. They had a nice program for the children during the service.
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Red Rocks
On the way home from Heritage Square, we made a brief stop at Red Rocks, the outdoor park and concert venue built into the (red) rocks.
Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Work Projects Administration (WPA) between 1936 and 1948
the natural amphitheater has played host to all sorts of acts, from the Beatles to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and everything between and outside.
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Saturday’s Doings
Today, we drove just barely into the foothills to a place called Heritage Square, “a unique, delightful replica of a Western village with Victorian architecture.”
Includes authentic old west artifacts such as an alpine slide, a ferris wheel, and modern versions of the old time medicine shows…
We enjoyed a couple of rides down the alpine slide, and a turn on the ferris wheel, but also had fun at a children’s theater production of Pinocchio
which included lots of audience participation. Well done!
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Susan’s High School BFF
You may not know that I moved with my parents out to Denver the summer before my senior year in high school. I left Needham High with a class of 450 and came to Cherry Creek High with a class of 850. I made not one single friend in the senior class that year, BUT had one excellent friend from the junior class (in chemistry class with me). I also showed up in her youth group at her church, which is where I built all my other friendships, none as lasting as this.
Last night we visited Nina and her family for dinner and catching up. She and Michael and their sons, Harry and Jack, hosted us for a wonderful meal, fun playing outside and decorating their car windows for the Little League World Series games Saturday afternoon. Good Luck, Harry and Jack! Thanks for everything Nina and Mike!
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Snow in July!
Today’s big adventure was a ride into the mountains to St. Mary’s Glacier, which often has snow all year round. We parked at the bottom of a hill (already at 10,000′ elevation), and hiked 3/4 of a mile
up to a pretty little lake
where we had a picnic lunch
and then hiked further up to the glacier/snowfield, and then (tried to) hiked a little way up.
We watched some people skiing, and some snowboarding, and then we watched some people try to slide down the hill, but nobody we saw was able to stay in control or slow down. Four people basically crashed down the hill into a pile of rocks, and we later heard that one might have broken a leg. It was actually pretty frightening to see.
Aside from that, it was a nice day to be up there, even if our lungs were not quite ready to extract oxygen from the thinner air at that altitude.