Polls, polls, and more polls

Just in case you're not sick of it yet...here's a cool little map from google. You'll notice that Colorado is leaning towards Barack...I'm proud to be part of that.

Barack-Star

We were there!! Click on the video to see what 100,000 people looks like.

Our day started with trying to get downtown via bus. The bus was 20 minutes late and completely full (it was coming from Boulder and full of college students). The bus driver said that another bus should be coming. We decided to just drive down to Denver on our own. After being told the lines were being cut-off, and lines that went nowhere.....we were 2 of 10,000 that got to go through secret service and become part of history. We couldn't really see Obama, BUT, how awesome to be among thousands of people

New Apartment Pics

I have been meaning to post new pictures of the apartment since we now have actual furniture. It looks so cluttered in this picture but it really isn't. I believe we posted pictures when we bought the couch but not everything else. You can see the table on the right side. It has four chairs, but since we only use two, the other two are at the kitchen breakfast bar. Michael is there sitting in his chair with his feet up on the coffee table. We also purchased the stand for the TV and the lights flanking the tv.

What are you looking at?...

Went to the Denver zoo yesterday with Alena, and her sister's family. We came across this curious bird and I managed to snap off a photo as he was looking at me.

Ice and Snow

That's right, this morning was treacherous! I knew it was going to be cold(about 30 degrees, but they said it felt 25 degrees) but I wasn't expecting the weather I had. The cool think about my drive into work is that I drive through the mountains and it is beautiful, the bad thing is the mountains. It was extremely foggy this morning. As I was driving toward the mountains, the cars coming opposite me were covered in snow! I saw several cars flipped over and I heard it was due to the ice. They had several roads shut down. So not ready for winter.

I survived the 1st week of work!

This is my building. It's actually a horseshoe shape, not that you can tell from the picture. The really cool think is that there is nothing behind the building. It's building, then mountains.
I have never had such a busy week for just starting a job before. I can't even believe the things I did. I was literally all over CO.

We celebrated my job and that I survived the first week. We realized we didn't have an ice bucket. So a stock pot with ice packs did the job....isn't that so funny?

Blooming Hosta?

My question is, do hostas bloom? We decided we needed a plant for the porch, so I bought a hosta. I figured it was a fairly easy plant to take care of and hopefully I wouldn't kill it. I bought it a few weeks ago, and look, it is blooming....So cool!

Rocky Mountain National Park/Estes Park/Bear Lake

In Estes Park this weekend it was the Elk Fest! From what we heard, the elk are literally all over; walking the streets, all over the park. Did we see one? No. We went into the national park to hike to Bear Lake. It seems that we were having problems getting the whole group together so we ended up hiking another trail. Michael and I ended up getting separated from the group when we made a pitstop. Not knowing exactly where the group was, we decided the best thing to do was to follow the road back down to the car. IT POURED, rain and sleet. We did eventually meet up with the group again. It was wild, there were antlers everywhere.
Unfortunately, Michael got extremely sick. We were up all weekend trying to get him better.