July 27, 2007
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No time to write
I am tired and it’s late…so this will be short. We’ve had lots of adventures the last couple of days and I truly feel blessed to see and experience all that I have. As I looked around at the snow on the mountains and saw a colorful multitude of wild flowers, I stopped to think how this experience of beauty isn’t seen every day.
The creek bed with rushing water and so many different types of rock formations, animals usually seen in the zoo roaming in their natural habitat, what a privilege it was for us to experience all of this!
Christine, Peter and I took off camping for a few days. Here’s the highlights…
-Roaming through Rocky Mountain National Park being awed by the scenery and wildlife
-Taking a hike and seeing moose (one on the path headed home that at first I thought was a log!)
-Eating dinner by a cascade of waterfalls on rocks
-Trying to find our way back to the car in moonlight, singing songs
-Almost (well…not really…but it could have happened if the police officer would have been mean) spending the night in jail! And by that point, we didn’t even really care…we just wanted a place to sleep!
-Attempting to find a campsite late at night and not finding one until almost 1am! Then seeing the stars displayed in such a wondrous fashion…the tiny ones came out so you could even make out the milky way! And waking up to discover we were camping by a lake!!
-Visiting and swimming in the hot springs on top of a mountain covered in birch trees
-Spending time in a bike shop and taking my first bike ride (sadly I only have had one so far) with my new bike that Peter put together!-Climbing to the top of a hill and over looking the lake and surrounding mountains
-Cooking potatoes and soup over an open fire and finding interesting ways to eat it (since we only had one knife and one spoon and no plates between the three of us)
-The rain NOT getting our tents wet
-Meeting our neighbor campersTomorrow we head to New Mexico early in the morning!!!
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A note from Peter…
One of the places to stop along the road in Rocky Mtn. Ntn’l Park is nick-named “Puffer Hill” because it’s a pretty steep hill at a high elevation. We talked to a family of Germans on the way up and helped them take some pictures, but on the way down one of their daughters twisted her ankle. Susan got an ace bandage out, had me check with the tourist store to get a cold pack (but no ranger was there!) and put some ice in a bag to imobilize the ankle and keep it cold. They were so grateful that Susan took the time and cared enough to do it that the father insisted that Susan take some money. She refused, but he was insistent!
