It's Sunday afternoon and I should be studying, but the power of the blog has taken over again. I was sitting out on our deck overlooking my Anatomy notes and trying to give some much needed colour to my snow white legs when I heard the soft whisper of the blog.......Jessica.......Jessica.......so here we are.
The roomies and I, aka "the Mares" of our herd of classmates have had a pretty full weekend. Liw, Kimi and I were up early Saturday morning and walked to Lake Loveland which is approximately 1.5 kms away from our apartment. Liw's parent were coming into town so Kimi, Heidi and I joined Cat and Chelsea on a trek up to Estes Park which is about 30 to 40 minutes away. (For those of you on Facebook, I've uploaded all the pictures.) It's a quaint little tourist town with lots of shops and restaurants. The drive up was absolutely beautiful. To reach
the park you must drive through Thompson Canyon. A very narrow passage way that follows the Big Thompson River. Do a Google search on the Thompson Canyon flood. Thirty 
years later there is still debris in outling areas....I know because we rode past some old piping today. It started to snow pretty hard. Luckily enough the sun peeked through after all. We came home and did some studying and Liw popped over with her folks who drove in from Nebraska, it was great to meet them and nice for Liw to spend Mother's day with her Ma.
Today, in honour of mother's day (Happy Mother's Day Ma) the Mares and I went for breakfast at Perkins, Liw and Kimi introduced Heidi and I to Chicken Fried Steak aka Country Fried Steak....now follow me here, it's called Chicken Fried Steak, yet it contains no chicken. Regardless it was to die for. It's considered a traditional Southern dish served with gravy and biscuits, all I can say is yum. At noon we met 6 of our class mates at a local ranch to go for a trail ride. Pictures speak louder than words so I'll just quit right here.
The roomies and I, aka "the Mares" of our herd of classmates have had a pretty full weekend. Liw, Kimi and I were up early Saturday morning and walked to Lake Loveland which is approximately 1.5 kms away from our apartment. Liw's parent were coming into town so Kimi, Heidi and I joined Cat and Chelsea on a trek up to Estes Park which is about 30 to 40 minutes away. (For those of you on Facebook, I've uploaded all the pictures.) It's a quaint little tourist town with lots of shops and restaurants. The drive up was absolutely beautiful. To reach
the park you must drive through Thompson Canyon. A very narrow passage way that follows the Big Thompson River. Do a Google search on the Thompson Canyon flood. Thirty 
years later there is still debris in outling areas....I know because we rode past some old piping today. It started to snow pretty hard. Luckily enough the sun peeked through after all. We came home and did some studying and Liw popped over with her folks who drove in from Nebraska, it was great to meet them and nice for Liw to spend Mother's day with her Ma.Today, in honour of mother's day (Happy Mother's Day Ma) the Mares and I went for breakfast at Perkins, Liw and Kimi introduced Heidi and I to Chicken Fried Steak aka Country Fried Steak....now follow me here, it's called Chicken Fried Steak, yet it contains no chicken. Regardless it was to die for. It's considered a traditional Southern dish served with gravy and biscuits, all I can say is yum. At noon we met 6 of our class mates at a local ranch to go for a trail ride. Pictures speak louder than words so I'll just quit right here.
Here's a pic of yours truly on "Big Daddy" and Heidi on "Baroness"
The "youngin's" aka the "Onion's" are hosting this week's potluck so we'll be heading over there in about an hour. Having a ball in the Rockies, will be seeing some of you next week for Rachel's wedding...whoo hooo!
XO
Jessica
P.S I've been here two weeks and already have a new nickname. To learn this nickname please send $1.00 in a self addressed stamped envelope, or look at the picture below for a clue.
3 comments:
I think that name is WOOD. Cause that's what your head is made of. You can take the dollar out of the money you owe me :) What do I win?
Love your hat! Very tillyish!
We miss you to pieces!
Hi Jess
We sure miss you here. It sure looks like a lot of fun,
but I think while your there you should save a horse and ride the cowboy instead.
Linda
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