Girls Weekend

Just returned from fulfilling my once-a-year camping requirement in Palisade, Colorado. Woohoo! Done til next year! I still don't enjoy camping...going to bed with multiple layers of sunscreen, bugspray and sweat all over, not showering, sleeping on the ground, etc is not my thing. My sleeping bag is still laying on my kitchen floor because I don't want it going near my room until it's clean. I have issues =) 
Five of us girls left Friday and stopped to hike Hanging Lake, which has been on my Colorado list since I moved here. The hike is basically 1'000 feet of stairs, so my posterior better be looking real good after this weekend haha.  It was over 90 degrees, my legs were like jelly and of course the other girls were all like "oh, this hike is pretty easy!" and I'm like "I can't breathe. I'm sweating. I don't like this."In the end it was worth it.

The water was a gorgeous blue-green. You could see to the bottom and watch the fish swim around.

The girls- Katie, Ashley, Kim, Shannon and me.

We did it! Being under the waterfall was a great relief from the hot temperatures. Thankfully we did not see any snakes on this hike ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Once we got to the campsite, we had technical difficulties putting up our tent, soon discovered mosquitoes were everywhere and Shannon and I were too long for our tent so we awkwardly slept with our legs curled. Did I mention I don't enjoy camping? haha. I really did have fun during the day, but at night all I wanted was my ambien =)

Ready to begin our bike tour. We only made it to 4 wineries but it was more than enough. I only like white wine and they all taste the same to me.  I don't foresee becoming a wine connoisseur in my future =)

Some of the vineyards.

Sooooo hot! Probably not the best idea to bike around to wineries in that kind of heat but we survived! Thank goodness for low humidity in Colorado!

Our awkward family photo. We stopped at fruit stands and I now love Ranier cherries and Palisade peaches. We were asked multiple times if we were a cross country or tennis team because we were in workout clothes. We definitely looked out of place with all the classy wine tasters but there was no way we were going to wear cute clothes while biking around in 100 degree heat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Sunday we packed up, stopped by a new winery, took an actual tour of the vineyard, and fell in love with the owners and their story. It was crazy, once we crossed the continental divide on 1-70 we could immediately see the smoke and haze from the fires. I cannot imagine what those firefighters are enduring in this scorching heat. Keep praying for them! I'm so glad I was able to spend a weekend with friends, enjoying more of Colorado. Only six more shifts of work then I'm home for two weeks- holla!