We woke up early this morning thanks to the annoying yapper in the room below. We were anxious to get home anyway. It was a wonderful trip. Thank you Eric for spoiling me and for planning such an awesome Birthday. I love you.

I have lived in Colorado for 20 years and have never hiked the infamous Hanging Lake trail. Eric and I decided since we were out this way and we should go hike it. Hanging lake is just on the East side of Glenwood Springs about an hour from Grand Junction. This turned out to be even better then I imagined. It is a 1.2 mile hike pretty much straight up the side of a cliff/mountain. It took us nearly an hour to reach the top. All I can say is WOW!! I hope the pic...

We slept in a little this morning and then went down to the restaurant to enjoy our free breakfast. It's good to be Diamond members at the Hilton. They always take good care of us. After breakfast we got out our maps and wine book and planned our day. We are headed to Palisade to do some wine, beer and liquor tasting. We also decided that this needs to be scouting trip for bringing Lesley and Ray here in September when they are visiting us from Australia so we ...

This morning we got up really early which was not easy. During the night the wood burner stove in our cabin ran out of wood so it was chilly outside of our giant pile of blankets. We really wanted to make it to the hot springs to watch the sunrise. We made coffee and warmed up the car to drive the 300 feet down the driveway to the pool area. I know this sounds wimpy but it was only 16 degrees out and we did not want to walk back all wet. We sat in the 105 degree ...