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sooo as you know- or dont know- i will be attending college in appox 4 days- wahoo. and i figured id just post up here my new email and address and all that just in case you need to reach me at any point next year.
0113 Dickinson Hall E
341 Hillside Road Rm 0113
Newark, DE 19717-3264

and my email is either cval@udel.edu or cvalerio727@yahoo.com
which ever you prefer to email me at ill end up checking both. okay i think thats it.

Did eye speel somethink rong?

okay okay. fine. so i guess i cant spell....but incase you were wondering spell check doesnt work on my computer...ha so i dont want any cheeky comments about spelling. its called sound-it-out spelling its the new thing they teach now a days. no hidden letters or anything its great.

Lets just cut to the chase here

so time out for now with the pictures until blogger and mac (safari) get a bit more compatable with each other. yeah so wyoming ill pretty much sum up the last 4 days with this- in the words of erin "It was awesome" yup.
day 3 went horseback riding - for FOUR hours yeah not so much all about that. especially four hours when you have zero water and you feel like you are riding through the freakin dessert. okay so maybe not that extreme but we were out in the mountains if that counts for anything.
day 4- last day in estes park (which was absolutelt georgous (i know i know i def spelled that completely wrong sound it out for yourself) we went rock climbing which i have also fallen in love with. and that needs to happen again. i think it was not only the view from the top (literally) but it was the sense of accomplishment and the whole holly shit factor- like yeah i did just climb that rock face. what chu got on me now. haha sorry skin check. ah yes. still white. so from rock climbing we drove something along the lines of 7 or so hours to get to custard south dakota and we definetley passed a town called lost springs which has a population of ONE yes ONE person. i still am yet to grasp that whole concept like is this "person" asexual or something. so they pretty much can procreate bythemselves because i tell you there was not another sole for miles.... but i try not to think to hard about things like that it makes my head hurt. uh visted mt rushmore (or less) ahah get it? no? okay. well then met up with some other west coast family vacationers and then went to look at faces carved into a mountain- for a bit longer than was nessessary just for me because its kinda like a whole yeah they are really going anywhere. yup still there still looking pretty much set in stone. ah shoot you catch that one. i am on a roll. so continuing....
day 5- visited jewel cave woohooo. i wish i could express the excitement i felt while i was touring the cave. it was something like picture this - close your eyes (well now when i say close your eyes i of course mean in the figurative sense because if you actually had your eyes closed right about now you would be unable to continue to read what i tell you to do next, so therefore i will turn a little proffessor trelawaney for all you harry potter fans out there- and close your minds eye while still leaving your real eyes open!) so anywho close your "eyes" enter an elevator, go down 684795298473 floors, enter a cave, open your eyes and look GASP theres no freakin jewels. false advertising is what it is. pretty much a scam. freakin tourists- theyll fall for anything. haha sorry no but there actually is no jewels in the cave, the tour guide was talking about it but again- yeah me not so much all about the listening. shoot some day this is going to bite me in the butt - like i will be on jeopardy and alex trebeck is going to be all like so "this cave has no jewels" and then everyone else will buzz in with "uh alex- what is jewel cave?" and there ill be all like shoot that tour would have been handie to remember. oh well. so yes then drove to deadwood for dinner.
so brings us to day 6 toured deadwood and picked up on those nice and interesting facts. and also i got sworn in as a deputy. so feel free to now refer to me as= hm hemmm Deadwood Deputy Colleen Valerio - and if you dont believe me i have a badge. which i have no problem flashing for you. ah yes. so then we drive to huellt (okay i know also butchered that) which laura= who was stalking us= actually might have been exagerating when she said that that town had 3 streets. i think it had like 1 and 1/2. buttt it was still a good time. went to the grooms dinner at night and set some "goals" for myself. haha. yes indeed. andddd i think that was all for the night. oh yes. my father seemed to have left my id at the hotel when we tried to enter the ponderosa for some _______ now here is a fill in the blank for you- its that thing that you do when you get up infront of people and sing along to music. yeah i cant spell that. and not even going to try. so you can just insert word up there. gooooddd. i mean could i be any worse of a speller (that was a chandler bing if you didnt catch that) anywho then hit the sack
day 7 the big day - well not really for me. but still. pretty much just hung out visited devels town which was cool because it was pretty much a huge huge huge rock in the middle of this completely flat falt land. it was weird to see. i wish i could show you a picatchur. okay i will ... http://www.mellman.org/bill/camping/wr86/wr86-89-devils_tower_at_sunset.jpg theres a link for a picture for you. its not exactly the best representation but it was like the third one that came up. so deal. uh yes so anywho. then got back to the hotel. showered which was not nessessary due to the fact that it was like 101 degrees at the time of the wedding. yes i was pretty much sweating in places that i didnt know you could sweat in haah. no i am just kidding. but actually not totally. but at any rate - the wedding was seriosuly amazing. it was pretty much my style wedding i mean everyone was in flip flops and sunglasses. outside. summertime. not nessarilly a typical wedding. in a field with a nice view. it really was in my opinion great. i would def want a casual wedding. but ps patrick and erin if you read this you guys were great and looked amazing! so then from there we went back to the restaurant place and had the reception. a little dancing a little dancing and little star gazing haha and uh well that was the night. again a blast. i loved it.
day 8 - now i have def messed up because we were not out here for 8 days but just ignore that fact and we shall continue... but this day pretty much consisted of driving 48236750283945 miles back to denver airport. with a stop in chyann. for frontier days. yup. and then our 12:30 am flight back to denver which was a bit bumpy which i didnt mind. it kept things interesting. and plus they showed you a screen on the back on the seat infront of you so you were able to see exactly where you were flying over and at what altitude. it was cool. especially when i dozed off after leaving the airport in denver and then was awoken by turbulance thinking holly cow that was a short flight glad i fell asleep but in reality- it had been a short flight= what i thought was the plan landing was turbulance- and i checked the map- we had not even really left colorado yet. shoot man. oh well. so i was up for the rest of the ride which was fun. not too much happened. actually nothing happened. i did though get the WINDOW seat!!! yessssss i got to see complete BLACKNESS yeah baby i knew the bitching i didn in the first blog would pay off. haha i am just kidding.
okay well then i have just given you the not so condensed version of the condensed version of our lasts days in wyoming.
but ps. i think i am going to move out to colorado. i love love it.

Day 2: The Rafting Trip

So begins day numero dos (again sorry with the spanish). another great early morning wake up. yes 5:15 in the am. we dont really like to sleep on our vacations. ha yeah so we get up so we could catch some breakfast at Eggs and I where we actually showed up at before the freakin store even opened at 6am. (thanks dad) just so we could ensure that we beat the mad 6am rush. whew. it was a good thing we got up that early because we definetly wouldnt have gotten a table. haha. yeah so we finish and meet our tour group at the local high school. where we get into vans and head off to the colorado river. we litterally drove through the mountains it was sick. i thought we were literally going to like fall off the side at some points. i would have never ever driven on the road that we took. we were some 12,000 ft up i dunno it was intense. ha. well i guess gina and lauren didnt think it was that intense. ha. so i think it was like 3 hours later or something- we arrive and get debriefed on the correct way to comandeer (like that word? ha) your raft down the river. i didnt really listen. woops. oh well it wasnt all that hard. haha. so we had somewhat of an intersting group of people on the tour with us...but it made for a fun one. anywho this was our fearless leader and captain. "make it happen captian" ha. and so we took some scenery shots. because again- there was some intense coolness. haha. yeah sorry. we did the whole rapid thing- butttt i have to say that i was a little dissapointed that there were more intense rapids. i mean i am trying to ride some class IV or V rapids. thats what i am talking about none of this class II and III business. ah its all good. we had some fun having intense- and i mean like intense. water fights with the other vessels. and swimming around in the water. and heres the group shot our of sweet boat. by the way now that i think about it we didnt even name our boat- i dunno what we were thinking. oh well. we havent even named our other boat yet. ha. oh well. what are you going to do about it. and here would be me. i just look like i know what i am doing. you dont even have to tell me. ha i was probably looking at the mountain where there apparantly was this shape of "chief Narmandy" or something- but it actually wasnt there. everyone just made it up. or it was and i just didnt see it. one or the other. but who sees things in mountains anyways? so we continue down the river with some paddeling and some swimming - which - was no fun trying to get back into the boat once you were out. more on that later. but anywho we make it down the river- not in the boat- but still none the less made it down the river...it was great. i definetely recommend doing that. just a bit more intense. none of this family rafting- go when the river is high and make sure you have to wear a helmet- that way you know its going to be good. then we get back on the bus drive another billion hours home- which may i add gave me time to read Tuesdays with Morrie which is quite possibly one of the best books ever written (sorry Harry). honestly go read it. its great. makes you think about life. anywho back to the hotel swam a bit in the pool. and hung out. this would be me pointing to the little egg that i got on my head- even though you cant really see it. it was funny. its from reentering the rafting vessle (i should have paid attention during the orientation aspect of the trip) and basically being yanked into the boat and slamming my face on a paddle. thanks guys. ha nah it was all good- i laughed (go figure). okay now timeout- i have to add this story from Fun Camp (yes it IS fun like i havent heard that one before...) where i am a counselor- so there is like like 5 year old boy and we are in gym playing a tag-type game - Upset the Fruit Basket if you really want to know (its a personal favorite) anywho- this kid is chasing me and he is surprisingly fast so me- not wanting to be caught by a freakin 5 year old starts to book it across the gym- i make it to the other side and i stop myself by running into the wall- but i put my hands up to stop myself. well this little kid does not either: a. see the wall there, b. see the wall- but doesnt have time to put his hands up, or c. sees the wall and just doesnt care to put his hands up. but anywho this kid rams into the wall right with his head. like smack full blast right into this wall. i look at him and am like shoot this kid is so dead and its totally my fault i should have just let the little kid tag me- there is no need to be that competative hes five- but no lie- this kid gets up, tags me, and is like your it. holly smokes. i just laughed and was like dude after that- sure ill be it. shoot man.

anywho. okay sorry wayyy off track this is suppost to be about our trip. but at this point i think that it was pretty much our day. went out to eat at Patrick and Erins old restaurant and then hit the sack.

Day 1: The Departure

So as the title so suggests my cousin, patrick had decided to get married, tie the knot, get hitched, whatever you want to call it- but anywho he is planning this event in a state called wyoming. incase you didnt know where this wonderful state is i inserted a pic-c-chur for you. its basically near this place called the middle of nowhere. ha. so after some/much debate we bought our plane tickets to denver. and so the saga begins...

So we'll start from the very beginning which is Sunday night actually at Lauras grad party which was top notch where Mrs. Lavenberg is officially my new hero. But anyway i finish packing around130 or so and am woke up (not very nicely might i add) around like 5 or something. yeah. this is me. not so much awake at this ungodly hour. So then we catch our flight

and ps a note about flying. i enjoy flying very much so- even with the crying babies- yes we had one of them onboard with us...but still that was not the one thing that got to me. it is people who downright disrespect the window seat privilage. for example this man on our flight...
blatent disgregard for the opportunity. while my sisters and i battle for the seat this man is freakin slobering all over the window. goodness. anywho 3 and 1/2 hours and some interesting skymall catalog items later we arive in denver!

woohoo! so from denver we got to play the sick game of- finddd yourrrr rentalll carrr (said it that game showvoice you know- okay nevermind)

but anywho we passed- yeah team.
exciting i know. so from here we traverse to Denver the city. aka LoDo. (as in LOwer Denver- well kinda the DO i guess if you misspell DenvOr- i dunno). But anywho we saw the infamous arch. haha nah just messing with you. were not in St. Louise silly. but we did do some shopping on the 16th street mall as it was called

and walked around a bit..

and visited a store entitled NIKETOWN.

shoes everywhere. i was in freakin HEAVEN. it was unbelievable. you have no idea how much self restraint- no correction i would have defintely walked out with a pair of shoes if it was not for the "colleen you have 902341908257 pairs of sneakers you are not buying another one" wah wah wah. gosh. never never have too many sneakers. never. sorry. so yes. after being dragged out we went to visit el capidorah (the capital- thats my spanish for you guys)

and we visited the offical one mile high step.

yes we were officially one vertical mile above sea level. exciting- i know.

and this is us again. and here we are at a different step- oh wait- no ha just kidding we havent gone anywhere we are still one mile up. still on the same step. ha. so then we did a bit more walking and passed some sweet ass bikes... they were actually taller than the people riding them...i should have asked for a ride... but anywho we then leave denver- now from here just prepair yourselves for a little bit-o-scenery.. and when i say a bit i mean a lot.

now i do have to admit that i would not go right ahead and call myself a nature lover. if you told me we were going to go look at mountains i think i might have been like oh sweet cool- NOT. butttt after visiting colorado i do have to say that it was unbelievable. seriosuly. not lie. it was sick. these things called mountains were EVERYWHERE. i was honestly blown away. i am going to throw in a little cliche here but picture dont really do justice even though we took like 89234 of them. yes- so as you can see i am now i am pretty much one with nature- were basically tight so we continue our drive and eventually arive at Estes Park. here we stop (which you will find we do much of during this trip) and feed the chipmonks. hah they were cute. so we check into our hotel and then hit up the rodeo. hah yes. this is like the hardcore-serious-western rodeo. they dont play games. but it was actually really fun even though i think that us- in our tshirts and gym shorts- exactly blended right in with the cowboy boots-plaid shirt-big belt buckle-hat wearing crowd. oh well. it was fun with the best part by far being an event called mutton busting where little kids are pulled from the crowd, outfitted in a lifejacket and bicycle helmet and placed on the back of a sheep with the only instructions being "oh just go out there and hold on as hard as you can" it was grade A entertainment right there. and of course the bull riding was pretty nuts.

but this so ends day one at Lauras/home/philadelphia/denver/estes park/the rodeo. yeah it was pretty intense. good thing we gained 2 hours. not even going to lie when i tell you that i was absolutely beat. but i have basically fallen in love with denver/colorado. its great.