travel

  • 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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  • The trip to Colorado

    The trip out to Colorado was quite the saga. We scheduled our closing for Tuesday afternoon, so I booked a morning flight. My cab arrived a bit early, and I left around 4:10 am. Miracle of miracles: I was checked in and at the gate by 4:45. My 6 am flight was delayed a bit due…

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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.

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