We made it!

Kelley and I have been enjoying Athens for the past few days. We have already visited Aegina (a close island), and Delphi (400KM east of Athens) where the ancient oracle is said to have been. Today we spent wandering central Athens and will be with Heather and Stephanos (Kelley’s sister and her boyfriend) tonight. Just wanted to let you know that we are doing great!

Wow, what a busy month! First, Kelley turned 27 on June 6th, then it was off to Hot Springs Virginia for a great wedding celebration for Andy and Courtney Shultz – Congratulations!. Upon returning to Colorado, Kelley and I closed on our first house (June 15th) and the following day were off to Redfeather Lakes for a second grand wedding celebration for Anya and Alex Blank – Congratulations! We returned to move all of our worldly possessions to our new place. Now, a week later (and still June) WE ARE OFF TO GREECE! Woohoo!

So, here are the appropriate photo galleries and links, enjoy!

Andy and Courtney Shultz Wedding June 9th, 2007

Anya and Alex Blank Wedding June 16th, 2007

2061 Tunis Circle Gallery and http://www.2061tunis.com

I think that I sent a whole bunch of you a picture message from Kelley and my St. Patrick’s day weekend in Steamboat Springs. We had an awesome weekend full of skiing and green beer – the best St. Patrick’s day that I can remember. As far as this guy goes he was alright, handing out chocolate coins and being quite jolly – however, we didn’t get a picture of the dude he was with – a second (drunken) leprechaun in street clothes who kept telling us (and the dozen or so children that ran up to him) to rub the leprechaun’s belly. At one point he told me he got $5,000 dollars the last time he did it .. creepy!

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 made it out to the mountains for skiing yesterday for the first time this season.  We went to Loveland Ski Resort (we got a four pack to this mountain this year since we had never been).  Click on the image below for more pictures in the Gallery:

Loveland is located right off the I70 and sits right on top of the Eisenhower Tunnel.  This “Basin” is where we spent the whole day and despite the hurricane force winds at the top – the views and sunshine kept us going.  I am looking forward to Loveland later in the season after some fresh powder as their bowls looked like fun – although there was a lot of exposed areas which prevented me from taking my babies (Rossignol Bandit B2s) up there.