In true Challis fashion, we like to break the rules of tradition on nearly every “holiday” or near holiday event. We decided to celebrate “Love Day” which is dubbed as such because it falls the day before Valentines day! We don’t like to celebrate Valentines because we feel like the Hallmark holiday is overly predictable and kinda lame. So we like Love Day – a day to celebrate everything we love – things that we do, foods we eat, company we keep… each other…and so on.
Jake and I have always wanted to do some select trips in and around Colorado that we never got around to doing since we moved here 10 years ago. So we decided that we were going to take several days and make a road trip out of it. In true Jake and Jill fashion we had to give the trip a theme, and that’s when Colorado Photo Safari was born.
The goal on our trip was to visit the Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Garden of the Gods and Cave of the Winds. Since I got my new awesome camera we thought there was no better time to learn how to use it while visiting these various Colorado hot spots.
I promptly left work at 1:45 pm, which is very early, even for me. The plan was to race home: Pack the car with small mountain of climbing gear staged in the living room, meet our Home Depot Chica at 2:30 for a bathroom remodel project, swing by A to Z Kitchen to talk about getting new cabinet doors, then race up Boulder Canyon and start working my project and for Jill to start working her project for as long as we could stay…THEN…meet up with some out of town friends for drinks and maybe dinner.
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PART 1: FENG SHUI
Today we decided to take another step towards our goal by going through and getting rid of anything we don’t really use or need anymore. It started simple enough with the front closet, but quickly moved into all of our closets, drawers and storage spaces. Its pretty easy to get rid of things like shoes and clothes that you don’t wear or hats that have long gone out of fashion and your tastes. These things we piled up for a goodwill donation.
It was a bright and sunny day, about 73°F, with just a hint of a breeze and a few friendly clouds in the sky…an absolutely beautiful and normal Boulder day. There I was, minding my business, working at my desk (the average forecasting reports while collecting millions of dollars; in short doing my job amazingly) when all of a sudden I hear a loud POP
We went back down to Moab for a short weekend of climbing, camping and a mini Challis’ family reunion. We arrived on friday around 5pm and planned to camp at the KOA since that’s where everyone else was planning to stay. It was packed! Plus it didn’t really feel like camping, as there were cabins, bathrooms, showers, a swimming pool, shopping area, even wireless internet! But we were not there for us, we were there to visit with Jake’s fam., so we sucked it up and settled in.
Thank you Sandy! You should check out our new blog www....August 22, 2014 - 2:39 pm by Jacob Challis
Love reading about your adventures. From: Sandy (friends...August 22, 2014 - 2:39 pm by Sandy TerrellLets do a big family trip next year (end'ish of summer ...October 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm by Jacob Challis
Looks amazing!!! We would love to visit with you!!!October 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm by Julieand so easy to make! we've made a couple batches just this...August 15, 2014 - 7:37 pm by Jacob Challis
