Here are some of the cellphone pictures alluded to earlier by my blogster wife. Peruse with abandon!

A nice picture of Amy, her friend Sarah, and a stray bear cub named Nigel.

Camping

We love to camp. The last two weekend we were able to go up to Guanella Pass and camp with our friends. It was so good to get away from the city and all the stress. I think I could just sit and stare at a campfire for hours! The first weekend, we sadly did not have a camera so Jules took some pictures on his phone that we can't figure out how to download.

Here are some shots of the second weekend with my co-teacher Nicole and her husband Eric. That weekend happened to be labor day weekend so we thought that there would be people everywhere. Oddly, there weren't very many people around where we camped. That picture of the beautiful stream... well you should know that those rocks are VERY slippery! I decided that if Jules could make it across the stream, so could I. I made it onto one of the rocks in the middle but when I shifted my weight to go to the next one my right leg slipped right off and into the stream. We decided that we would try to dry my shoe and sock over the fire. That's my shoe in the top right hand corner.

It worked pretty well except until I noticed my shoe was smoking. Then we turned it over and after a while I noticed that the sole had two large bubbles. My shoe is still wearable, it just has more character now.

Here are some more pictures.