A visit from some familiar faces!

This past weekend my mom and sister came to visit me! They drove out from Fulda so they could bring me some of my last few boxes of things from MN.

They said the drive was awful and that they are never going back to Nebraska. :)

They arrived on Thursday night and after they checked into their hotel we headed downtown Denver so I could show them my office building and a couple of the sites. We capped off the night with some Mexican food and Margaritas!

Friday was an early morning as we had to be down in Manitou Springs (right outside Colorado Springs) by 10am to take the train up to Pike's Peak. We made it and although my sister Jess was sick with a cold and we all felt yucky because of the altitude, we had fun and got to see Kansas and New Mexico all standing in the same spot...pretty cool I must say.

After Pike's Peak we spent the day in Manitou Springs which is one of the cutest little mountain towns I've ever been too. Lots of hippies and locals. We stopped for a couple Coors Lights and burgers at a local bar where they played three Journey songs in a row. :)

Slightly exhausted, but still ready for more, we dropped Jess off at the hotel so she could sleep off her sickness and Mom and I headed to the mall. We all were so tired that night, we crashed early and didn't even eat dinner.

Saturday morning we piled in the car and headed up the very curvy and beautiful HWY 24 to Buena Vista, CO. This is where we were going whitewater rafting. We arrived to BV early and had a picnic lunch in the park and Mom got more and more nervous about the rafting adventure.

We got to the rafting place about 45 min early because Mom was worried we wouldn't have the right clothes. Everything turned out fine though, and I'd have to say we looked pretty professional!!

The rafting was a absolute blast!!! One of the most fun things I've ever done in my life. We did a class III rafting trip which is about a 6 or 7 on the thrill factor. The first 1/3 of the trip was pretty calm with a few bumps and rocks and I was beginning to think we had wasted our money. Boy, was I wrong! We got to the rapids and we were bouncing all over the place, going backwards and paddling like crazy. Besides Mom getting slammed into a giant rock and losing some hide on her arm and the little girl in our boat getting tossed overboard, we all made it thru just fine.

Mom had a great time and said she was ready to try a classs IV next time!!

After rafting we dried off and drove to Frisco, CO where we spent the night. We went out for an expensive dinner and sat on the patio watching the sunset over the mountains...GORGEOUS!

Sunday we woke up and headed downtwon Frisco for a little shopping, but to our surprise, there was a Corvette show going on so we skipped the shopping and looked at cars. There had to have been over 1,000 Corvettes in town that day.

The only bad thing that happened to us was that we got caught in a giant traffic jam heading back to Denver on Sunday night. What should have taken us an hour, took three as we were creepin' and beepin' for 70 miles. Not fun....in the future, I will leave earlier.

We concluded our trip Monday morning when we went out for an early breakfast before Mom and Jess headed back and I went to work. They decided to go up to Wyoming and thru SD for a little extra scenery at the Black Hills and the Badlands. What a weekend!! Pictures coming soon!

I was so tired last night I needed a vacation from my vacation!