Tuesday, July 31, 2007

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.

4 comments:

Birmingham Pat said...

Colleen,
Your posts are soooo funny! They've let me get to know you better. Patrick will be so glad to hear that you loved Colorado. Sounds like you need to visit them again in Fort Collins when they return from Berlin!
Love,
Aunt Pat

Jackie said...

hey, smarty pants - i didn't post your blog on my blog b/c I didn't know if it was an underground blog...and since I get a lot of traffic on mine, I didn't know if you'd want it there. But don't worry - there will be a feature on it now!!!

Jackie said...

oh also...karaoke.

you need a HUGE spelling lesson.

Claire said...

hey colleen!! this is claire dunlap! i agree with the wedding being great!! it was like the perfect wedding... and i wana move to colorado now too!! so maybe we can move together:D haha well goodluck in college! tell ur family i said hi!