Today, we got up at 3 AM, got ready to leave, took our doggie to the dog sitter, then off to the airport to fly to Denver. I have never seen Jessie around other dogs, so wasn't sure how she would react to all the dogs owned by Tina.. our sitter. I still haven't heard yet... but I did see that Jessie loves cats. The cats she met were bigger than here and she just wagged her little tail like they were best friends. Jessie is a little old lady and Tina's dogs are like high school football players.... so I am somewhat concerned that they will knock her over and hurt her back again.
After the typical airport ordeal, we rented a car and drove about 1 1/2 hours north to Estes Park which is amazingly beautiful at about 9000 ft. elevation. One time we were coming up over a big hill, kind of like a roller coaster, and at the top of the hill was a view like a mega post card of the mountains! Much better than a post card of course. Took my breath away.
Estes Park Marina is just across the street from our hotel.. .so we spent a couple of hours there playing at the playground, looking at the little mini kayaks for kids which Jazzy is still too small to use of course, and all the boats. The lake is visible out our hotel window.
Our next endeavor was to brave the Safeway store.... the only grocery store in the town. The place was a madhouse on a Wednesday night. I saw very few Colorado license plates... only out of state. We had to purchase our contribution to a cookout held at one of the camp directors (Kristin Morgan-Tracy) campsites in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The cookout was a "pre-conference" event for anyone who wanted to come. Jazzy met lots of new friends.
Overall, the town reminds me of Sedona. Perfect weather, very pretty, but totally overcrowded, bumper to bumper traffic and subsequently very overpriced. A very nice place to have the camp though.
My computer was smashed in the overhead bin on the plane... so it has taken me about an hour just to write this one paragraph. Will be very short for awhile.
Eating breakfast 5AM at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport!
With 9 yr old Emily (Kristin's daughter)
Jazzy and Trang. Trang is 14 yrs old and was just adopted from Vietnam at age 12 1/2. She speaks very good English already.
Jazzy and Kristin (camp director)
