home*sweet*home

after one week, 2 & 1/2 days our apartment finally feels like a home!!! =0) there is still more decorating and sorting to do... but it actually looks like we live in it now!!! wanted to share with you all our excitement by posting some pics of the place! lots of space for you to come visit! =0)

Red Rock Canyon only 15minutes from our door!

Mile High Adventure

Well after moving our stuff in our new ozoned apartment. We decided to take a day trip to Denver, and drop our wonderful crew off at the airport for their return trips to Oregon. We went to a little restaurant known as Casa Bonita, featuring some interesting Mexican food, cliff diving, Bart's cave, and many little campers. We then checked out 2 of the stadiums in Denver, the Bronco's Invesco Field (formerly known as Mile High) and the Rockies Coors Field. Both were really cool. Denver features the 16th street mall just down the street from Coors Field, it is much like Pioneer Square and downtown Portland, but longer straight stretch. It included many stores, shops, and one really cool tower that Bret managed to find for us, we scaled all the way to the top, although I'm pretty sure we weren't supposed to :) There were some odd decor on the way including an angel like skelleton, some mats, and candles. The view from the top was fantastic though! We then hiked to the U.S. Mint to look at the outside of the building since tours close at 2 pm. It was off to dinner at TGIF's and then to the airport to return our crew.

Day 3 Welcome to Colorado

Laramie, Wyoming to Colorado Springs, Colorado
Total Distance: 213 Miles
Travel Time: 5 Hours

The final push! With our wonderful crew of volunteer movers we embarked on the final leg of our journey. Stopped to take a quick picture at the border, and to take some pictures at some very meaningful and historic statues. We then hit lunch at Chik Fillet in Denver, and on to Colorado Springs to move in......OH NO our apartment was so smokey that we had to wait 3 days to move in but never fear it all worked out in the end! THANKS SO MUCH TO Bret, Dale, and Brandon for all their help!!!!

Day 2

Twin Falls, Idaho to Laramie, Wyoming
Total Distance: 567 Miles
Travel Time: 10.5 Hours

Woke up and headed to Snake River Canyon for some photo oppurtunties. and rock throwing. We then loaded into the vehicles, headed southeast into Utah, cut through the corner of Utah through some beautiful red rock canyons. After leaving Utah we climbed up through the southwest corner of Wyoming and then headed east across the plains of Wyoming, Lunch was in Rock Springs and dinner in Rawlins. Off to Larmie for the night!!

Day 1

Sorry for the late updates just got the internet working...

Day 1 Salem, Oregon to Twin Falls, Idaho
Total Travel Distance: 605 Miles
Total Travel Time: 14 Hours

Were off! Picked up Brandon at IKEA by the airport and regrouped at a nice picnic area in Arlington, Oregon for lunch then on to Boise for dinner with Brandon's friend Matt. Headed on to Twin Falls for a really long but fun day. Played the Licence Plate game, Name Game, Number Game, and listened to some tunes in the car. Penske drove great and the new Red RAV4 was running like a machine!

Changes

There have been lots of changes this year, all for the good! Starting the blog of our life so people can keep up with us as we move, and live in Colorado. We will dearly miss many people in Oregon and hope you can all come and visit us