Busy Busy

February 19 2007

Right I am back - so the past few weeks have been crazy busy. After we got back from Utah with the new truck and me feeling much better, we had a few days to hang out and relax before the first of the visitors arrived. The first batch was a big one (5 South Africans and me old mucker from London) - luckily they weren't all staying at my place! Halfway through that week a couple of our other friends arrived from London too so we were a pretty big gang. The snow was great for everybody and towards the end of the holidays the weather even started to warm up with a few sunny days so thats always a bonus.

Last weekend me and one of the other girls enrolled on an all girls Park Weekend at Breckenridge. That was really cool - we got to learn how to ride the halfpipe, jumps and rails with not a drop of testosterone in sight! That was so much fun its so nice to be encouraged rather than always being told that "you're not trying hard enough..." hmmm

Then this weekend we all headed down to Denver to stay with various friends we have met and see their home towns and generally drink a lot. First stop Columbine - you may recall that a few years ago two young boys went into their school with machine guns and killed a load of the students.. thats where we were - in fact the guy we were staying with had refitted all the glass windows that were shot out of it during the incident. It was a bit creepy driving through the town and I still just haven't gotten used to the idea of people walking around freely with guns all the time. Anyway we all had a big party and that was a lot of fun - the next day not so fun as we had to wake up at 7am and drive 3 hours down to Pueblo to meet some other mates!

Pueblo was great the sun was shining and it was HOT - 65 F in fact! So we hit a biker bar in the evening where the free drinks were flowing all night (again) and then up at 7am again to go shooting. Jon was really good at that but I screamed when I had to hold the gun and then ran back to the safety of the cabin. I really don't like them. After that we headed down to the paintballing field to watch the pros practicing for their upcoming tournament. All of that was followed by yet more drinks and yet another early start to head back up to Avon! So we are back at home now getting ready for the next motley crew to arrive on Saturday.... its a tough life eh?

So I will write a bit more this week and put some photos up tomorrow but hope you are all having fun!

Caroline x