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Cabin Rain

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

August has been absolutely beautiful, as it often is in the Pacific Northwest. If there is going to be a cool and drizzly weekend in late summer, though, you can bet that we will have the intiution to pick it. Obviously, this means that we picked this past weekend (5 months ago!) as our cabin [...]

Stags

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

There were stags in the front yard of our bed and breakfast! One was a mature three-pointer (to the left), and the other was a scrawny teenage stag (to the right) hanging out with a cool older dude.

So, here’s what happened: Josh went to return our keys at the main house, and while he [...]

Garden of the Gods

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We watched a video at the visitor’s center which told us that the Garden of the Gods was thus named because two men (can’t remember who!) were surveying the area together. The one man said, “This would make a great beer garden!” His friend replied, “No, this is a garden of the gods!” [...]

Gold Mines and Bordellos

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The second full day of our trip, we drove up to Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek sits very near to the top of the Continental Divide at roughly 9000 feet in elevation… whew! It’s a famous gold mining town just over an hour outside of Colorado Springs, and while there, we visited a gold [...]

Cliff Dwellings

Monday, July 12th, 2010

This is the view of the Rockies from the entrance to the Manitou Cliff Dwellings. We’re less than 10 minutes away from our gorgeous bed and breakfast!

Courtney in front of the actual cliff dwellings. Considering that I am not that tall (5′4″ish), imagine how much smaller the people who lived here were!

Keith spent [...]

Home again

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

We are home again! For those who didn’t know, we took the week off from work and met Keith’s parents in Colorado Springs for a lovely 5 days of hiking and eating and eating some more. Before you ask: there was no particular reason we chose Colorado Springs. Seriously. It was [...]

Spokane

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

For once, we have not been updating the blog because we have been doing so many things! Most importantly, we spent the holiday weekend in Spokane. Things to know:

We stayed with Josh and Mackenzie. Translation: we ate a lot of really good food, played board games late every night, and goofed off with the kitties. [...]

An Anniversary Weekend

Friday, January 15th, 2010

As many of you know, Keith and I celebrated our second anniversary on January 6th. (Two years! Can you believe it?) Since we spent so much time traveling over the holidays, we elected to celebrate in dowtown Portland for a few nights. Here were the high points:

We stayed at Hotel Monaco, which is run by [...]

Visiting Little Rock

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

If you haven’t heard already, Keith and I visited his folks in Little Rock for Christmas this year. We had a fabulous time with the whole gang, although we have a few choice words about the airline we used. (You should not *AHEM* arrive home 37 hours after your scheduled time, especially without weather or [...]

Lobster: a photodocumentary

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Pictures speak louder than words… especially when lobsters make a run for it. (My apologies for the fuzzy pictures; my little camera didn’t handle the action well.) Thanks to P & S for the hysterically fun live LobsterGram!