Mountain Air

There is definitely something about the mountain air in colorado that does good for the mind, body, and soul.  I was able to take some time off work for the last week of July and travel to Buena Vista to visit Trail West and relax, though they closer i got… the more my knee started aching… just kidding of course.

 

i flew into Denver and took a shuttle to Frisco, which is about an hour from Trail West, where Kym was able to come pick me up.  It was so good to get to spend the week with her and staying at her place was great, it was so quiet and a great retreat.  I was allowed to pretend like I was a horse wrangler again, going and helping for wrangler breakfast on wednesday and thursday.  the 4:45 wake up was pretty easy since that is basically the same as my work get up time when you factor in the time difference.  I was able to work a few days but without the stress of being in charge, so it was really enjoyable and stress free.  One evening I went with some friends to a music festival in town, on saturday a group of us went to breakfast at a cafe in town like we used to do every saturday last summer, we went to a rodeo dance, and and sunday kym and i watched movies all afternoon

 

it was great to be somewhere that even the people that i had never met before were open and loving and interested in my life.  it seems that in the city, people are normally just nice because they should be.  people seem to avoid personal level interaction, leaving everything at the surface.  i don’t know if this is because no one cares or if no one wants to offend anyone with opinions or what, but i definitely realized how much i miss real conversation.  luckily i do have a few great friends in the city with whom i can talk about reality, but it was great to be surrounded by it for a few days.

 

since then i’ve caught up at work, things are pretty calm at the moment, which has allowed me to foster some great working relationships with the clients that i’ve been managing.  there are some further developments that i am going to wait to write about on here since this is a public blog, but if you are interested just send me an email and i can fill you in!

 

i am actually getting ready to head out of town again (i’ve been all over the place recently!!) to meet up with Ben in Miami.. oh yeah.. did I mention he has the month of august off (paid vacation at that)?  He is transitioning from “A to A”, or analyst to associate for us non finance people, and it is customary at his company to receive a one month “sabbatical” during this transition.  He spent his first week in Capri, Italy and spent this week in Nice, France.  We’re meeting in Miami for the weekend, where he’ll stay a few days past the weekend before going to San Francisco to visit a friend for a long weekend before heading home to Fort Worth to see his parents, when I will meet up with him again for the weekend.  I am really looking forward to seeing his home town, and, of course, meeting his parents.

 

And wowzers, that will take us to September! Within a few weeks, I will have been living here for a year! Whodathunkit

 

Here are a few pictures from my Colorado trip.

 

oh, and in other exciting news: the first 4 seasons of mad men are now available on netflix streaming

 

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