Today was AWESOME! Yesterday I thought we saw the beauty of CO, but today we saw the 'real' CO. After leaving Glenwood Springs we headed up 10,000 feet through the heart of Vail-- where there's still snow, in July! Stopped at the swankiest Starbucks and knocked off a few of the gift card dollars a friend gave us. Then went through 4 tunnels-- two small and two mongo long-- drove in a straight line for 350 miles and landed in the middle of nowhere (if you watch THE MIDDLE you know the kind of town; it's the place where they give directions based on crossing either one or both of the overpasses. When we asked about where to watch fireworks, they said "Saint Annes"; when we asked where and what that was she looked at us like we not wired right. When we went to dinner at Kirk's Nebraskaland Bar and Fine Dinning, the waitress told us that she thought the fireworks were pretty good, but that she had also, "never been anywhere else so...".
Emily: Behind our hotel is a cornfield. When I looked out the window to see if we could watch fireworks from our room, it looked like sparks in the cornfield. Then I realized it was lightening bugs! Sooooooo cool! (Chris: Which meant all the ladies ran outside in their PJ's to watch/catch/chase/terrorize the fire flies-- I came out for about 1 minute and somehow attracted my own creature- 10 mosquito bites in under a minute. Is that a Minute To Win It game yet?) Oh man! I got to see lightening bugs! Better than fireworks!
Rebekah: Nebraska turned out to be not as boring after all!
Danielle: Lightening bugs are awesome!
Fireflies are very cool! Mosquitoes...not so much. I guess it's all part of the adventure.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to LIFE tonight but it's going to be weird without all of you there. We'll be thinking of you!!