Four Corners!!!! (and then some)

We made a detour after Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, Utah. One of our friends from college was in a skiing accident just before Christmas and broke his leg and tore his ACL and meniscus.  He just had surgery a couple of days ago and we decided that we were this close so we HAD to go see him. And we're glad we did. It was awesome to catch up with Matt and hear about his new job and his passion for his work. We had the privilege of meeting his mother and a few of his friends while there too.

After Utah, we drove down to FOUR CORNERS!!!  When my family and I made our trip out West back in '99, the one place I wanted to go was Four Corners and I got sick right when we got there and didn't make it onto the monument. So, I was pretty stoked to finally make it there.

Finally!

Josh was kinda excited too :)

Rockin' the wedding glasses

This is Ship Rock, which you can see from Four Corners. It's difficult to see from the picture but the  natives long  ago thought it looked like a ship and so they traveled to it hoping to find other people but it was in fact, just a rock but they ended up staying there and today the town is called Ship Rock.

Colorado!

We made it to  Colorado! We' were here to visit Josh's aunt and uncle who live in Colorado Springs, CO. The mountains here....well, I hadn't seen real mountains before, I guess. They are spectacular and magnificent. Almost more glorious to see than the Grand Canyon, in that awe-inspiring way. We stayed at an awesome little lodge with real hot springs! Hot springs are not uncommon in CO. The town we stayed in had a fitness center and outdoor pool that was fed by hot springs so it's hot year-round. It had lanes and everything! The place we had gave us a free hour in this little hot spring hot tub thing.

The mountains of Colorado. Glorious, aren't they?

Private little space with a snowy little hot spring. Awesome.

Funny little lodge at the base of a mountain in Ouray, CO

Like driving through Narnia.

We stopped for lunch the other day and found other really big structures...

World's largest pine cone?

World's largest rose?

Now we're in Kansas, heading for the World's Largest Ball of Twine. Pictures will follow.