This weekend Trevor and I drove up to Colorado to visit his parents in their new home. I didn't get any pictures of the house, but it is really nice. It is surrounded by hundreds of trees and feels very peaceful there. We did not get to enjoy the awesome deck due to it raining nearly the entire weekend. However, we did have a great time and got to see the sites around the Colorado Springs area.
There are three ponds in their neighborhood which are supposedly stocked at the end of May. Our attempts at fishing in them came out empty handed, but it was a fun experience. The funny thing was that there are houses surrounding these ponds and people probably found us humorous trying to fish in them.
Another place we went to was the Garden of the gods. It is a very popular tourist attraction and for good reason. One, it is free and two it is BEAUTIFUL. Sticking out in the mountains of Colorado are these red colored rocks that all have a very unique shape to them.
After we went there my camera died. :( It was too bad too because my favorite part came next. We went to the very close by Manitoo (sp?) Springs. It is this great little hippie town with many fun little shops and interesting people. It would be a fun place to visit and play music with the local musicians.
That night we went to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. This was new experience for me beacause I have never eaten there and Trevor always raves about it. If I had pictures I'm sure they would bring a laugh because I was both embarresed and confused by the whole thing. The embarassing part was that our waitress brought out adult sized bibs for us to wear and wrote things on them. For example Trevor's said "My waitress gave me crabs." The confusing part came when I was trying to master cracking open crab leg shells. Dispite my embarresment, I am now a big fan of crabs and plan to cook some in the future.
It was nice to take the trip because I start my job next week as a real social worker!
