Our Unfortunate return to Minnesota...

Sunset on our final eavning....
Oogie and Padme on the Pearl street Mall
Richard Riley Evan Evie and Oogie at Garden of the gods

Riley at Manitou
Oogie at Manitou
Evie and I nuggling at Marilyns
Oogie and Padme playing after dinner...
Oogie at City Park on the stone elephant...

The cows that are out the back door of DAM on our delerious day. Oogie loved them he was particullarly excited to make sure that oma and opa got to see picture of them because they are "the biggest cows ever!"
Kalisha, Evan, Evie, me, Riley and Jesse leaving lunch on sunday we had such a great visit with evan and his family it was so wonderful to get to know them and meet the girls.
Jesse and Riley being goofy at Mr.Biggs we had a whole lot of fun!!!
The cutest rockstar i have ever met...
Jesse and Riley walking through garden of the gods it was beautiful and made me relize just how much i love th mountains...

So sad to be back home... i didn't even remotely realize how very much i missed colorado until we went back. We had a great time got to see a lot of people and have a lot of fun. We flew in on saturday and made a b line for el noa noa and had lunch which was per usual fantastic. Then we headed to DAM where we wandered around the museum for a few hours Jesse lost intrest rather quickly but did well in general. We took that evening pretty easy as we had been awake for way to long to be healthy any longer. We stayed as Richard's friend Thresa who was a wonderful and gracious host throughout most of trip we stayed at her house. Sunday morning we woke up early and headed to the springs. We spent that day with Evan and his family. We had a great visit that i wish had been days longer. The kids got along so well and had a great time playing together within a matter of moments Jesse and Riley were thick as thieves. We had lunch together at old chicago and then headed to Mr.Biggs where the kids got to run around and be crazy. The dads did to while Kalisha and I had a chance to sit and relax for the most part. I think Evan and Richard had more fun at the pirate ball room than the kids did. We then drove over and met Kalisha's parents who were very nice we have a short visit that i wish had lasted longer but jesse fell asleep about 5 minutes into their front door... We stayed in colorado springs that night and the next morning headed back over to Even and Kalishas. We then wandered around garden on the gods and took the kids to Manitou Springs where we got to take lots of pictures and play on the old fashion arcade ride with the kids. We said our good byes in manitou and headed up to boulder. It was time for some microbrew and more old friends. We headed to Mountain Sun where we met up with Mati and Padme had a great dinner wander aimlessly around pearl street just for old time and headed to their house. Had a great little visit and got to take home some of Matis homebrew. The Fat Tire clone was my favorite. The next day we spent wandering around denver heading to old haunts like the city park, the tattered cover, twist and shout records, burbon chicken for lunch and then our last supper at of course el noa noa. We left totally wanting to never leave and can't wait to head back this time we will make sure it happens a little sooner....