The weather this weekend was perfect, so I dragged Mac out of the house for an adventure. We love big cat rescues and found one east of town in Calhan called Serenity Springs Wildlife Center. They have around 120 animals (mostly big cats) and do several tours on the weekend. Calhan is at least a…
hometown tourist
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Garden of the Gods: Perkins Central Garden Trail
On another beautiful winter day, Mac and I headed over to Garden of the Gods (ironic that it’s 15 degrees and dumping snow as I type this). Garden of the Gods is a natural grouping of red sandstone rock formations. It’s absolutely stunning and is an essential stop on any trip to Colorado Springs. We…
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
The weather was incredibly nice last week, so we headed over to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. I grew up going here, and Mac and I stopped on our Washington-to-Oklahoma trip back in 2009. We both really like it, so we bought a zoo membership. With the military discount, we paid under $60 for the whole year…
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Our Colorado bucket list
Since we’re only going to live in Colorado a few years, I’m making us a list of quintessential things to do while we are here. Because we move so much, I make an effort to explore where we live as much as possible. Creating a Colorado bucket list is a way for me to track…
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Our first Colorado weekend
What, a weekend recap? Could it be that we did something this weekend? In our continuing effort to procrastinate and to not finish unpacking, we decided to ditch town and go exploring. Saturday morning, we headed up to Woodland Park. We had seen a commercial for Williams’ Log Cabin Furniture, so obviously we needed to…
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Colonial Williamsburg
Before we headed over to Jeymie’s party on Saturday, Ashley and I stopped to visit Colonial Williamsburg. Neither of us had been in quite a while, and I really enjoy exploring. Sadly, the weather was pretty terrible.