When we first got to Colorado we tried to go up to Rusty's cabin, but there was too much snow! We couldn't get back there. We normally would have hiked back there but we didn't have a whole lot of time to spend there so we decided against it. But it was still a beautiful drive back there and we saw three deer! I swear this trip was my own personal wildlife show. We also saw a TON of elk, which I had never seen in the wild! And we saw two bald eagles!
Something I have always wanted to do in Canon City is to go up on Skyline Drive. It's this road that goes up on this ridge (pretty straight drop offs on both sides) but it's supposed to be really pretty at night with all of the lights. I also heard that there were dinosaur fossils there! We went and checked it out, and it was really cool. I guess people were mining up there and noticed these marks; there were a lot of them and they were all going in the same direction. They looked at them closer and realized they were dinosaur tracks! This is the underside of the rock that they were stepping on, so they stick out like they are 3-D. It was super cool.
We spent time with his family playing games and eating a TON of food. We also met up with some friends from the area that Rusty knew when he was growing up and went and saw the Forgotten Carols with them and then got some dessert. It was great to see them! Oh, and of course we ate at Chipotle. Duh.
So I have wanted to go to Arches for a really long time. The last time that we tried to do it was before I went to Charleston, but I got sick and couldn't stay. So on our drive back from Colorado we decided to make a little pit stop and see it! It was so cool! I loved seeing everything that was there, it is like nothing else that I have ever seen.
He does that amazingly well.
We were trying to make arches with our mouths...
Yay! Gonna go see Corona!
Seriously though, I have so much to be thankful for. I am grateful for the opportunity I was given to grow up in a home that taught the Gospel. I am grateful for my parents and my sisters with their own families now. I am grateful that I met Rusty; he is truly the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I am grateful to be living in Provo going to school. Sometimes I don't feel so grateful for school, but I really am. :) I love learning and it is such a huge blessing that I have been given.
