My second semester of Nursing school is in full swing and we finally get to do a lot of hands on things. The past few months have been a little stressful with overall 3 drives from and to Ft Collins (I got to fly once :-) JR and Jack are now settled in Ft Collins and they are exploring new things every day...and the more they explore and the more they tell me about it, the more I fall in love with the town as well. Here are some images from what has been going on during the last month:
Beautiful sunsets by the Poudre River.
Jack playing in one of the many streams during our runs.
Unsuccessful first house hunt in the two weeks we were up there prior to moving.
JR told me the piggy bank cannot come with from Phoenix to Ft Collins unless it is empty...so...
I emptied it. I found a lot of Euro's in it as well as US bills...I am pretty sure my family put those in their :-)
Because I am too cheap to bring it to a counting machine, I hand counted EVERYTHING and rolled it. Over 500 $ :-)
Our house was under contract within 24 hrs of putting it on the market. One month later it was time to move out. I will miss our first house :-( If I could I would have moved it with us!!! The yard, the citrus trees, the brick house, proximity to the trails ... we will definitely miss it.
The Penske truck was loaded at 1 am, I had to leave for class at 5 am, sit in class all day and then start the drive to Trinidad, Co. Yikes, I was soooo tired. Here is the "stationay monsoon cloud" that I encountered in Albuquerque. It caused a massive flood and if I would not have been in a Tacoma I would not have made it through the water.
Following the truck :-)
Right now class is Mon/Tue and rotation is Fri/Sat...so we have Wed/Thu to explore. I have a fantastic group of people in my program. They are so nice, love the outdoors and help you in any situation. Here we are exploring Fossil Creek. Unfortunatelly we couldn't hike to the "blue" part of the water but we got to see the original Dam.
Lunch break at the water.
Igor found an apple tree in the middle of nowhere!!!
The apples were ripe and delicious!!!
The dam and "the toilet". See the hole on the bottom left of the pic? You apparently can jump in it and you get flushed out on the other side of the rocks...aehhh...no thanks. The sound of the toilet was crazy - talking about power flushing...
Igor made us coffee in his fancy glass coffee maker. I am still amazed he got it there inane piece!!!
We jumped into the water, found some swings and had so much fun on the way out.
Today I decided to get my Mnt bike out. Since I wanted to get a good workout in I decided to ride up Schultz road to Mnt Elden. It was a total of 2 hrs on nice steep forest road. The aspens are starting to change, and thankfully the snow we got earlier this week was melted again for the ride.
View from the top!!!
San Francisco peaks in the background.
Sunset Crater and Painted Desert.
Aspens are slowly changing.
