Time has gotten away from me lately. Did a crazy week of being home, then Casper, WY for a day then Calgary for a couple days, back home for a brief weekend and then back to Calgary again. Lots of happenings. So here goes a shotgun blast of the last couple weeks, not necessarily in chronological order...
Cooper got a new pool, we played in it today
Escape!
Jill and Cooper played, both inside and outside.
I got my first day of
mountain bike patrol in a couple weekends ago, and played around on some off the beaten path trails.
Lucked out and caught Coldplay with Snow Patrol in Calgary last Wednesday. Scalped some floor tickets and ended up dead center 15 rows from the stage. Primo seats and another great live show by Coldplay.
The huge yellow balloons dropped during, appropriately, Yellow.
Getting back to our adventurous ways, Jill and I headed to Salida, CO to do some zip lining. We got to do 6 zip lines with the longest line being about 500 feet and quite speedy. The lines went across a canyon, providing a cool experience of flying through the air. They didn't let us take cameras, so no pics unfortunately but here are a couple pics from the company's site.
Also got over to Banff to have dinner with the interweb superstars
Chris and
Marni Plesko. Chris was setting off on the unfathomable 2800 mile self supported race, the
Tour Divide the following day, and Marni was busy being an all-star wife driving Chris and several others to Banff then driving solo back to CO to wait for Chris to get to the US/Mexico border in 2 - 3 weeks.
Thus far, Chris is killing it.
Check his progress here...Fixie Dave is also rocking it on the Tour Divide, but heading from the south to the north. Sending some good vibes to Dave hoping that this is his year to be the first to finish this race on a fixed gear bike.
Check out Dave's progress here...The other big news is that Jill joined the iPhone revolution today, getting a new iPhone 3G S. Yeah I've got a bit of phone envy, but sadly I'm not eligible for an upgrade till December which means it will be this time next year when Apple inevitably releases the next iPhone.
I think that hits the high spots for the last couple weeks, this weekend we're heading up to the Punisher's summer place up near Nederland for a BBQ and maybe some hiking and/or riding. And then a much needed week at home before starting another big adventure....
