My visit in Iowa was cut short by a robo-call from Delta cancelling my Monday flight - winter storm Saturn (when did we start naming winter storms??) was headed that way.  My brilliant daughter-in-law found me an earlier flight on United, so I booked my ticket, hugged my kids, and hit the road.  Off to Colorado!  So much to see...including...

Beautiful scenery

My cousin Tina

And things that go bump in the night!

 

(that's the very haunted Stanley Hotel!)

Colorado, if you didn't know, is beautiful.  A very foreign terrain to a longer-time-than-I-intended Florida resident, complete with snow, mountains, and spruce trees.  And I hadn't seen my cousin Tina in nearly 40 years, but we hit it off like we did as teenagers.  And that was the coolest part of this stop...even better than deer grazing in her front yard, seeing the Rocky Mountains and the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, or ghost hunting at the Stanley Hotel, which, if you know anything about me, you know that was a total blast for me.  And we did, by the way, find orbs in our pictures and hear ghost boys running down the hall!  But connecting with my cousin and her family, spending time laughing together, getting to know each other and sharing old family stories was by far my favorite part of this stop.

 

 

Now, on to Washington State!