travel

  • Our Colorado house tour

    I decided to update my original house tour photos with the professional photos taken by our Realtor when we sold our house. They are much nicer. Considering we bought our house over a year ago, I’m finally getting around to posting our house tour. At first, it was general procrastination and avoiding giving my house…

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  • The International Exhibit of Sherlock Holmes

    While we were at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, we bought tickets to explore the International Exhibit of Sherlock Holmes. It’s is a traveling exhibition and was in Denver for about a month. I am a big Sherlock fan and was excited to check it out. The exhibit was not what I was…

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  • Denver Museum of Nature and Science

    Way back on MLK Day, we headed up to Denver. The night before, we were watching the AFC Championship, and the broadcast showed some footage from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (aka dinosaurs). Mac thought it looked fun, and so did the majority of the Denver metro area. While we were there, the…

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  • CMZ Electric Safari

    This is one of those posts that I write then forget to upload photos to for weeks. So yeah. Before we headed back east, we visited the Electric Safari at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Since we’re members, our admission was free. The gates opened at 5, so we got there right after they opened. The…

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  • The down-side of snow days

    We had an unplanned four-day weekend last week thanks to a snowstorm that dumped over a foot on the greater Colorado Springs area (which the Army was kind enough to leave my husband out in the field for). While snow days are fun as a kid, they aren’t always as fun as an adult. You…

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  • Super Bowl Champs

    Last night, my Denver Broncos managed to not blow it and won the Super Bowl. This was a long time coming, and I’m really happy for Peyton. We went to a friend’s (lovely, brand new) home and had a good time watching the game (and by that, I mean I spent most of the game…

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