Sunday, October 14, 2007

Birthday, camping, and baseball!

Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been super busy! For my birthday, Eric took me camping way up in the mountains. The aspen leaves were just starting to turn bright gold and it was really gorgeous. I'm glad I got to go camp before it was too late! Thanks E! ;-)


The valley below the mountain we camped on.



Aspens.







The bumpy road we drove up for about an hour to get to camp. It made me a bit motion sick.







Finally we made it to our campsite. This is a view from the site.




Our campsite




The lake near our site.




Packing up in the morning.






The rain coming in. We hit up a cafe and had bloody mary's for breakfast! mmmmm.



The plant Eric got my for my birthday. It's on my desk at work now.



We went out to dinner with Eric's roommates and friends. This is Nick and his mom.




Birthday key lime pie!



Saturday Sep 30th, Eric and I went to one of the last Rockies regular season games. We had great seats and it was pretty fun.





Eric looking up scores on his fancy phone.



The Colorado crew all got together at Conor O'Neil's to watch the Rockie's one game playoff. Super long game, but SO much fun. That's Bret on the left, Mary my roommate, Jamie in the back in red, Dave, George, Eric, and Johnboy.



Eric, George and I went to game 3 of the Rockies NLDS. Before the game we hit up Oktoberfest in Denver.



It was funny to see an Irish Pub at Oktoberfest.






Our seats for the NLDS!



When the lights went out. Pretty cool.



Woohoo!

Here are two videos - one before the game and one after. SO much fun! Eric and I have tickets to Game 5 of the NLCS, but that means the Rockies have to lose a game for us to be able to go. It's kind of hard to root for that, but I do hope we get to go to the game!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Hike for Youth pictures!

Hey everyone! First of all, thanks so much to everyone who donated to my Hike for Youth. I raised $340 overall, which is pretty good for a week's notice! Here's some pictures, as promised.


Eric and I woke up at 6am to drive down to Golden Gate State Park.




Pretty scenery on the drive there



At the hike they had booths set up for the different benefitting organizations. This butterfly was at one of those booths.



And the 7 mile trek begins!




I'm glad Eric looks tired! He's in super good shape, so it's nice knowing he was feeling it too.



The hike followed a creek for the first half, then switchbacked up to Windy Peak (which was indeed windy), then dropped into Forgotten Valley in which there is an old homestead. It's a really beautiful hike. I was so distracted by the scenery and talking to people in our group that it really didn't feel like 7 miles at all!



Me on our snack break at the top of Windy Peak.



Eric's snack break



On the top of Windy Peak



We did the Mountain Lion trail



Which is on the upper right side of this map.



Our hiking group



The homestead, settled by a Swedish family in 1870.




The afterparty




Waiting for the raffle..



Eric fell asleep on the drive home and opened his eyes just as I was taking this picture. hehe.