Colorado (week 15)

So only 47 hours of this past week was actually spent on the ground in Dallas and the 47 hours are from wheels down to wheels up. Brooke and I landed at Love Field a little after 4:30pm on Tuesday from Seattle and we took off a little before 3:30pm on Thursday for Colorado. The 47 hours that were actually spent on the ground are a complete blur to say the least between working, laundry, unpacking, repacking, community group or a counseling session as we all ended up calling it – nothing bad just some big life changing decisions to process. So a great 47 hours just not a lot of time for sleep in there – oh well I can sleep when I am dead.

On Thursday afternoon after mine and Brooke’s quick 47 hour stop over in Dallas we were off to Colorado with 17 of our friends for the long 4th of July weekend. We left Love Field a little before 3:30pm and had a stop over in OKC for what we thought was only 30mins – well let’s just say that 30mins turned into around 3 hours of hanging out in the OKC airport thanks to bad weather in Denver, a fuel leak on our plane that they couldn’t find, and a strange package left in the Denver airport that closed the airport. Thankfully Brooke and I all took this in stride – as did our friends even poor Kelly who was waiting for us to arrive in hanging out in the Denver airport. Mind you Brooke and I are texting Kelly and Emily (who is having her own plane issues in Dallas) the exact same thing at the exact same time while we are sitting next to each other on the plane – we didn’t think. Once we finally made it to Denver we didn’t have any problems and we were all delirious at this point – I am sure Luke, Chris, and Jason all thought Brooke, Emily, and I were a little crazy as we took pictures of each person that arrived for our car. We finally all joined the rest of our group a little after 1am at our house in Breckenridge and pretty much all fell right asleep – sort of. Friday was a full day of hiking (yes the boot is 4 wheel drive approved – sort of) in the Royal Gorge, white water rafting (yes I fell out of the boat and floated in the river for a little while – the one thing I wasn’t suppose to do), relaxing in the hot tub, a yummy homemade dinner (thanks Jessi), and lots of late night laughs with the girls. Saturday the actual 4th of July was a really relaxing day – we slept in, hung out on our amazing front porch, went into Breckenridge to shop, had a cookout, and watched some amazing fireworks. Sunday we were up early b/c we wanted to attend Watermark Denver’s 1st Sunday morning service so that meant we had to drive back to Denver. I am so glad that we were able to attend their 1st Sunday morning service though – so worth it and so fun to be reminded of where we started out as Watermark. Sunday afternoon was spent at a Rockies game and then off to the airport to hurry up and wait for most everyone’s flights to be delayed. Thankfully, mine, Erin, Brooke, and Chris flight were all only delayed about an hour b/c everyone else didn’t end up getting home until around 4am. It was amazing trip, with amazing people, and great weather – can’t wait to go back.