… were dashed last night in a grueling four hour tournament. Coasting on an undefeated season, our rookie team, the “Septic Papayas” held our own to come out in 4th place overall – unheard of for a rookie team in the northern Colorado dodge ball circuit.

This league was great – almost exactly like the movie except with less training sessions. Anyway – we have a few photos from this (not many) so enjoy!

Kelley and I did a ropes course together this past weekend. CSU has a pretty cool one built just off campus and I have wanted to try it for a long time. Most of the activities were partner specific so we had to work together to get through them. The hardest was the “Giant’s Ladder” which you see a picture of below involved scaling the ever shifting and increasingly distant rungs of, well a giant rope ladder. We made it all the way to the top with some clever use of each other as smaller ladders. If you click on the image below you can see some other pictures of our day.

Wow, there is a lot of stuff to update here! I guess I will start with where we left off on the last post and that was SNOW! As you know, Kelley and I spent some time down in Durango this Christmas – we rented an SUV and picked up Kelley’s sister, Heather from the Colorado Springs airport and completed the trek down to Durango without incident – it was snowy all around but the roads were perfectly maintained. Durango was, as always, a blast – lots of relaxation and laughs – it felt great! Click the image below to see all the pictures from Durango:

Of course, when we packed up to come home Colorado was getting another big bad blizzard. It took us 12 hours to travel north to Denver from Durango. This trip usually only takes 6 hours. Heather’s flight out of Colorado Springs was canceled of course and rather than trek another 4 hours north to Fort Collins (usually only takes 1 hour) we spent the night in Denver. The following day we learned that the snow caused CSU to be closed (3 and a half snow days so far this year!) and after driving back to Fort Collins and shoveling out – we were free to relax from the trip north.

Of course, we had to rest up for New Years! We decided to go out to the bars this year and got a whole crew together – we had a great time and drank way too much. Today we are going to sleep a lot and complete a mini detox session. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well, we spent all day shoveling – it was actually a ton of fun and the whole neighborhood was out doing the same.  Click on the image below to go to the whole album:

Lots of ATVs and snowmbiles towing snowboarders – it was pretty cool.  We also heard that tomorrow is another snow day – that’s right CSU is closed again!  This means that I am officially on Vacation!  Anyway, overall I think Fort Collins co 22 inches of snow – and with the temperatures hitting 40 degrees today – I can’t wait to drive through town and check out all of the snowmen.  We have to brave the roads early tomorrow to pick up the SUV we rented for the drive down to Durango – thank god we reserved a rental – our cars don’t do so hot in the snow anymore…  Anyway – I hope everyone has a great vacation and Christmas and I will miss you all – maybe I’ll post something while I am in Durango to let you know how it is going!  Happy Holidays!

Here is an update! CSU closed tomorrow YAY! Here are the cars – it is supposed to snow like this through noon tomorrow: