Last month I had a really great week with great girlfriends! Lisa and I flew together from Richmond to Colorado Spring and met up with Tijon and her daughter, Jocelyn. Even the flight with Lisa was great! That night we got our rental car, found our hotel, had fun catching up and swam in the pool.
On Sunday morning we stopped at a church in Colorado Springs for sacrament meeting and then hit the road! It was a beautiful drive and we had fun just talking and enjoying the scenery. We made sure to make a few fun stops along the way.
Lisa was a great driver!
We could not wait to get to surprise Janel!
Janel's mom, Diane, was wonderful! She was in on the plan and helped plan and execute the whole surprise. Janel's parents brought her to a picnic at a park.She ran home to grab a cooler that they forgot and when she came back we surprised her!
It was so great to see her! I think it totally shocked her to see her Virginia friends in CO!
After a nice picnic, we did a little exploring. Does anyone recognize this place from the old John Wayne movie? I didn't, but Tijon did.
We had a fun night.
We spent most of Monday at a really neat hot spring pool! It was actually 7 pools- each was a different temperature. It was awesome and we all loved just relaxing, being together, and taking in the breathtaking scenery. The town of Ouray is coined "the Switzerland of America". It is a little town surrounded by mountains. A really neat place.
A quick view from Janel's parent's cabin. It was a really cute house with great decks and huge windows with great views. We saw wild turkeys there, but fortunately no bears approached the cabin while we were there. Janel and Samantha usually see one each summer.
We spent most of Tuesday hiking. Jocelyn and Samantha came with us on the first hike to Ouray Falls. I had a great time taking pictures. And this is just a random sampling of those pics. We had to wipe our computer and all of our pictures are on an external hard drive and I don't want to go back to retrieve them right now, so the pictures that I loaded first are the ones I'll use.
Actually, all of those pictures were from our first of 3 hikes. Oops, I really am leaving out some neat ones. I might go back and switch a few around later.
Doesn't this homemade icecream look delicious? It was! Thanks Tijon!
Well, I am leaving a lot out, but it was a great trip and I just love those friends. Thanks again, ladies!
2 comments:
Looks so fun!! Glad you were able to do that!
great pics...looks like a super time with good friends. Miss you
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