Lake Pueblo

Keith & I had nice weekend camping in July. 

Our Trip to Albuquerque in April

I'm finally posting about our trip to Albuquerque, NM for the Good Sam Rally!

Here we are loading up the bus and almost ready to head on down the road.

We spent our 1st night in the Walmart parking lot in Trinidad, CO with the other 6 RVers we were Caravaning with. Here we are on the end.

Here are just a couple RVs that camped with us! I think the total was 3800 RVs! This is Balloon Fiesta Park known for the Balloon Festival, that I'd like to come back for someday.

Here is some our group taking a day trip up to Santa Fe.

This is a self-supporting staircase in a church.

Hot Air Balloons in the sky on the morning we left.

On the way home we stopped at Fort Union National Monument to see this neat old fort. We stretched our legs, let the dog out, made our lunch, used the bathroom and we were on the road again.

Table

We finally got it! It is beautiful and Keith took it to the bus a couple weeks ago now.

I was very impressed with it when it arrived at the house. They also sent a spice rack and paper towel holder made of maple.

I have been a horrible wife, I haven't been down to the bus in so long, I have yet to see it in the bus. Keith says it looks good. I will post pictures soon.

October 12-14 2008, Our Weekend at Pikes Peak Rv Park

I believe I have mentioned in the past that we were interested in joining The Good Sam's Rving group. We actually had to be voted in and we were. Yeah! I am excited to be a part of this group, they seem like they are going to be a fun group. I am probably the youngest of the adults. Jasmine was the only child, everyone else has grown children in fact some of their grandchildren are Jasmine's age but, I don't think she was too bored. She read a lot this weekend(Not like her, but she was happy). We camped at the Pikes Peak Rv Park in Manitou Springs, CO. We brought the bus up from Pueblo to Manitou on Friday at about 5 ish. We stayed in site # 50/51, Keith always wants to remember which site we stayed in so if we decide to go back we can stay in the same spot if it was a good one. We liked this spot it was perfect for us.
So, Friday night there where "heavy appetizers", everyone was supposed to bring something. I did not realize this, so we ate all the food and I mentioned to Jan, a Good Sam member, that I didn't realize I was supposed to bring something. She made sure I knew it was OK, "because there is always enough food".
Saturday we were on our own all day to do what we wanted, they did have a scavenger hunt to do in Manitou, we didn't do it. We watched Boris with his lathe make a beautiful bottle opener of ebony wood, among other things and he let Jasmine help him make it and keep it. By the time we were done watching his wonderful work, it was so interesting, it was after 1pm. Plus, it was so cold and spitting rain so I think we had stood outside long enough, at one point I brought Jasmine some Hot Chocolate. Brrr! We then went to Amanda's Fonda Mexican Restaurant. I love that place. In fact, I've decided they have the best salsa in town. I had Carnitas, I liked it. I may try something else the next time I go there. Saturday night the Good Sam's had a Chili/Gumbo/Soup cook-off. We made our Jambalaya, we didn't win, but had wonderful warm food perfect for the weather. Everyone stayed inside on Saturday night, ok maybe we just stayed inside because it was too cold outside. I will be glad the rest of the campouts are summer months, so they'll be warmer.
Sunday we made breakfast meat to share and brought fruit and the "Wagon Masters" supplied the pancakes. I am guessing there will not be a shortage of food on these fun weekends. We visited for a bit and then packed up and left. All in all it was a fun weekend. November 8th we are meeting in a restaurant and will continue to do that until the camping resumes in April or May depending on weather.

Wednesday October 8,2008

Today is Wednesday.

Since Jazzy goes to Church with her friend Katie every Wednesday night, Keith and I have been going out to dinner. But, we all went out last night to a pizza place here in town I've been wanting to try, NYPD Pizza. Good Pizza. Because we had never been there we were excited to find out that every Tuesday there's a deal, buy one pizza get one free! Score. I think we'll go back although we have another local favorite we like also. It is Boriello Brothers Pizza and it is another New York style pizza. We seem to like that style.

I watched a little TV last night. I have to admit I am addicted to TV. I have contemplated stopping my watching but I am not sure I can. So, I caught up on Oprah. I also watched a new show this season called Privileged, it's on the CW network. It's a cute show, the main character Megan is so quirky, I love that about her.

I am working two jobs right now. I am working so diligently on getting out of debt. Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays I go to Denver to work for a company, they are a contracted company with a gas company, I walk in neighborhoods checking gas meters for corrosion and rusting. Not a hard job, I bust my butt and can get the job done early. So, the second half of the day are mine to do with BUT, I am stuck in Denver. I like the pay, for what I do.
Tuesday and Thursdays and every other Saturday I am a hairstylist at a good salon. I love what I do and the people I get to make beautiful all the time. My clients keep me going I love them. But, I am tired of the politics/cattiness at the salon among the other stylists. This business I've been in for 10 years has it's ups and downs

I like the concept of writing a blog, I'm just not sure I have enough to write about. I will post pictures about life and experiences.

We are going Rving with The Good Sam's Club this weekend. This will support my love of traveling and meeting people. We are going to Manitou Springs at the Pikes Peak Campground.
I am excited to update later about that.

Colorado Samboree

Keith has been working hard on the bus. He had almost finished the bunk beds before we went to the Colorado State Samboree.

Jasmine and Kate got to sleep in the new bunk beds for the first time this weekend. I think they really liked them.

Colorado State Samboree was in the Salida, CO fairgrounds, September 10-12, 2008. There were a lot of RVs at the Samboree, I think the total was at 230 rigs. We met a lot of really nice people and got invited to join a chapter meeting. We are thinking of becoming chapter members. We need to go to another meeting to voted in. This seems like a fun group.

We didn't know it at the time but there was a tracker pull the the Salida Fairgrounds.

On our way home from this wonderful weekend. We stopped along side the Arkansas River to eat lunch.

Chad and Diane Adams

Chad, Diane, Kelsey and Collin came out to Colorado to visit from Kansas City. They camped a couple of days near Woodland Park at the Lone Duck Campground before we met them at Mountaindale Campground to camp with them.





We went to the Royle Gorge in Canon City. They hadn't been there in a long time.