On vacation

I meant to blog about our first tandem ride of 2009 on Sunday afternoon Feb 8th and how happy I was that we had made it in to the Georgia Tandem Rally. More on that later.

Now we are in Colorado for a week. We didn't come this past Christmas as we have the two previous Christmases. So we planned our "Christmas" trip in February instead. Flew out of Asheville last Wednesday, the 11th; we LIKED that airport a LOT and the ticket was half the price of Greenville or Charlotte.

Wayne and Sarah picked us up and we grabbed a late lunch at Famous Dave's BBQ. I needed a post-travel nap and time zone adjustment before we zipped over to Carrie and Eddins' to get our snowboots. Thursday afternoon we took off for the mtns, snowmobiles in tow. Stayed at a small but inexpensive condo in Winter Park with W&S and John & Lana Alexander. Friday we rode the sleds 70 miles in the Grand Lake area just outside Rocky Mtn National Park. Almost killed me. Mercifully Wayne let me drive his nicer, smoother machine in the afternoon, but I was REALLY tired after driving all that way. The weather was very nice. Not too cold.

We had dinner at Hernando's, watched Ironman with Robert Downey Jr. and went to bed ZZZZzzzz. More snowmobiling on Saturday, this time in Fraser. We rode right beside the slopes at Winter Park. Only about 25 miles this day. Much more pleasant for me, but bumpy, overcast and some snow. Introduced a couple of new friends to the sport before we headed back to town.

Celebrated Valentine's with dinner at a New Mexican restaurant Carrie (the New Mexico native) loves. Yummy food and great sopapillas.

Worshipped with them at Mission Hills Church on Sunday, and enjoyed a relaxing day. Just nice to be away a few more days. The weather has been mild. Not much snow around. Good to see folks and spend time hanging out with them.

Did enjoy church at the NewSpring webcampus yesterday afternoon. Awesome way to connect people with church!