Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddeeeeeeee in the world :)
I love you!

Jurassic Park :)

So I'm a pooped pup this evening! Yesterday Debbie and I went for a great hike in RMNP. There was still quite a bit of snow on the trail we ended up on, but it was a great adventure. If you want to check out the pictures: click this to see/laugh at our ongoing album from the summer hikes.

Today, after a rocking workout at fit camp, Gwen, Laura, and I climbed up to some great rocks above Lilly Lake called Jurassic Park. I added a few pictures to the climbing album: click this to see the ongoing collection of climbing pics.

This one isn't in the album yet as Laura had it on her camera, but it's my favorite!! :)

SNOW!!

No, not snowy weather, but LOTS of snow still in the mountains!! Rocky Mountain National Park FINALLY has opened Trail Ridge Road (the road that connects Estes Park with Grand Lake over the Continental Divide). Usually it is opened on Memorial Day weekend, but there was just so much snow up there this year that they just couldn't do it. It opened on Tuesday, so on Wednesday Debbie and I drove up and over. Here's me in front of one of the snowbanks :)

The Numbers and the Narrows

So Friday afternoon, while lazily puttering around on the computer, a friend of mine from school told me she was going rafting this weekend and that I should come. As I had no big weekend plans, I told her I was in! Later that evening, while practicing my swing at the batting cages and kicking bootie in puttputt golf, I told another teacher friend that we were going, and she was on board too! So Saturday afternoon the three of us jumped in Julian and drove over to Buena Vista, and after a not-so-restful night sleep at the plush Super8, we hit the Arkansas river. The mountains in Northern/Central Colorado have had record snow this year, and the warm weather has just started, so the river was running high and fast. In fact, the morning we went it was running around 2,100 cfs (cubic feet per second) and they close that section at 2,400 cfs. According to their website, this morning (Monday) it's running over 2,500 - so we got in the last day until the water goes down! The trip was AWESOME! These are class IV/V rapids and they were rocking. Our guide was awesome and our boat worked well together, so he let us hit the hardest routes. It was SWEET(and a little scary too!). Yay for summer!!!!! :)