Jo had a board meeting in Boulder that spouses were requested to attend. So I took one for the team and packed up and joined Jo for a couple of days in Boulder. We landed to bright, sunny skies to really enhance the mountain views. We stayed right in downtown Boulder with a great view of the Flatirons right outside our window. While Jo had several meetings to attend they did schedule some downtime for the group and we took advantage of a group hike on the Royal Arch path in perfect 70 degree weather (it was 88 degrees the next day, so great/lucky planning on that one). It is always fun to hike in the mountains although not sure how it might compare to our lofty Lapham Peak hike from a couple of weeks ago (remember that was all the way up to 1,200 feet - or so).
While in Boulder we had the time to see our sister-in-law, Pat, and her two boys that are in the Boulder area (Karl and Nick). Karl and Nick had us over for dinner one night and prepared excellent kabobs on the grill with home baked cookies for dessert, courtesy of Pat (notice that was home baked, not home made!). We finished with Limoncello that Karl had made which was the best that I had ever tasted. Fortunately, he was willing to share his recipe and we plan to try and reproduce it since it was quite tasty. It was fun catching up on all the Colorado family doings since we don't get out to Colorado all that much.
We came home on Friday and spent most of Saturday settling back in and having Jo fight a slight cold she caught somewhere on the Boulder trip. Sunday we decided to see the birds at the Audubon Nature Center and spend the afternoon hiking their trails. We saw a Barn and Barred owl that were just amazing. Very interesting to see these birds up close like that. We actually had a Barred owl at our house in Connecticut that we saw once but never quite that close. Then it was home to catch up on chores and preparing mentally for another work week - well at least Jo had to do that.
Jo had a board meeting in Boulder that spouses were requested to attend. So I took one for the team and packed up and joined Jo for a couple of days in Boulder. We landed to bright, sunny skies to really enhance the mountain views. We stayed right in downtown Boulder with a great view of the Flatirons right outside our window. While Jo had several meetings to attend they did schedule some downtime for the group and we took advantage of a group hike on the Royal Arch path in perfect 70 degree weather (it was 88 degrees the next day, so great/lucky planning on that one). It is always fun to hike in the mountains although not sure how it might compare to our lofty Lapham Peak hike from a couple of weeks ago (remember that was all the way up to 1,200 feet - or so).
We came home on Friday and spent most of Saturday settling back in and having Jo fight a slight cold she caught somewhere on the Boulder trip. Sunday we decided to see the birds at the Audubon Nature Center and spend the afternoon hiking their trails. We saw a Barn and Barred owl that were just amazing. Very interesting to see these birds up close like that. We actually had a Barred owl at our house in Connecticut that we saw once but never quite that close. Then it was home to catch up on chores and preparing mentally for another work week - well at least Jo had to do that.
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