Hello!

So, have y'all heard about yearbook yourself?  After uploading a pic of your mug you can make yourself cry laughing at all the goofy yearbook pictures with your own face (or someone else's).  It's pretty doggone funny.  Anyway...

Colorado, unlike the pictures above, is a truly beautiful state and is turning out to be a really nice place to live.  The drive out here from Virginia took 2 1/2 days and wasn't boring at all.  After a couple weeks in an extended-stay hotel we moved into our teeny tiny apartment.  We don't intend to stay here for very long but this joint certainly has it's advantages.  The location is great.  Everything we need is within a few blocks and Shawn has an easy commute to work.  I've only bought 1 tank of gas since we moved in on Aug 1.  Crazy!  While we look around for more permanent housing, we're enjoying the view from the itty-bitty balcony of our apartment.  This picture is facing east, can you see the rainbow?  The building we live in looks just like the brick one in the lower right of the picture.

This picture is the view facing west. If you squint you can just barely make out the Rockies above the middle building.  See 'em?  No?  We'll have better mountain pictures soon.

And here is the Colorado State Capital building.  There's a step about halfway up the front that's exactly 1 mile above sea level.  I tried to get a picture of it but the cops said no.

A little horse on a big red chair in front of the Colorado Museum of Modern Art.  Not sure what it's supposed to mean but it's cute, yes?

Oh, here's the Big Blue Bear at the convention center.  The bus with the funny roof belongs to a local tour company. It's an old school bus tricked out to look like a log cabin.  Funny!

I took this one during the Democratic National Convention.  This is what we saw everywhere.  Security was supatight!

Chris Matthews from NBC during the DNC.  He had a stage set up downtown for taping his show during the whole week of the convention.  He seemed to be pretty cool about signing autographs and talking to folks on the street.  You can't see them in this picture, but most all of his assistants/producers/makeup/coffee mug carriers were all really young, pretty, busty women in tight shirts.  Kinda funny.

We went to the Red Rocks Amphitheater to see a taping of A Prairie Home Companion for NPR.  The guy on the big screen is the man who does all the sound effects.  He was the best part of the show, aside from the view.  Red Rocks is just west of the city and is a truly remarkable place.  I don't have the vocabulary to describe it properly so we'll be sure to take you there when you come to visit.

Garrison Keillor and Susy Boggus during the show.  I do enjoy A Prairie Home Companion on NPR but I have to tell you, those producers must do a lot of editing.  The show we saw was nothing like what you hear on the radio.  Garrison is a total perv, y'all.  I was shocked, SHOCKED!  Not to destroy your image of him as Mr Homespun or anything but that dude is a dirty bird....and he's nearly as unattractive as Larry King.  What's creepier than a dirty joke coming from an ugly man nose breathing into a microphone? *shudder* Gah!  We had a fun time at the show, though.  Like I said, Red Rocks is a beautiful place.  Y'all are gonna like it.

Up next, a few pictures from our trip to Amsterdam and Aspen trees...stay tuned!