Stroke, Hit, Fire and Phrase

It was a full day of activities today.  It started with Tana picking us up at 7:15 am to go to Carter's swim meet in Thornton, CO.  Barry took the boys to Collin's baseball Tourney in Commerce City. It was a pretty morning with a great view of the snow capped Rockies.

STROKE

Carter did a great job in his races and even came in first in his breast stroke heat.  He beat his best time and looked great.

There were many schools that participated, and they had many heats.  But, they kept is moving and we were on our way to Collin's second baseball game

HIT

We missed the triple that Collin hit in the first game of the tourney, but we made it there in time to see the second win of the day and an In the Park Home Run that he made.

Link to the Facebook Video

FIRE

We headed back to Cherry Creek State Park and the RV to have a cookout.  We were all hungry and decided to eat while the weather was good and before it might rain.

Hot dogs always taste better cooked over a fire.  The s'mores were good, too.

 Barry played some "Pickle" with the kids.  After swimming, Carter had to go to work at Chick-fil-A.

Sam, the dog, came out for the cook out, too.

Guess he thought this was his "good side".

PHRASE

A dark cloud passed over so we went inside to play a little "Catch Phrase" Game.

Craig, Tana and Collin (the home run hitter)

Kyra is spending the night with us, so we finished off the daylight with a nice walk.

Kyra, Kathy and Craig

Jeff and Rachel's oldest, Kristen, went to the Prom tonight in Crown Point, Indiana.  She went with Noah.

We feel very blessed!

Blessings,

Kathy

Pueblo to Aurora, Colorado

Wednesday we drove just 109 miles to our last stop for at least two weeks in Cherry Creek State Park.
Below is Canon City.. pronounced "canyon".  There's a prison there and the Royal Gorge.

We took the back way up to Colorado Springs and it's a very pretty drive in the Rocky Mountain Foothills. Pikes Peak is snow capped.

Coming into Colorado Springs from the southwest

Once north of Colorado Springs, you pass the Air Force Academy and it's famous Chapel.  There was a plane doing a touch and go on the runway as we went past.

It's less than an hour drive from Colorado Springs to Denver.

We passed through the city of Castle Rock.  It once was a small town, but has grown so much in the last few years.

Coming into the city of Denver we past the "Tech Center".  We turned off on I 225 to get to Cherry Creek State Park.

This is one of the best State Parks we know of.  I hope to write a blog just about the park soon.

We got things set up and Craig's brother, Chuck came out to have a quick lunch with us before we headed over to help Barry and Tana removing the old and installing a new water heater.

We ate dinner with them and went to our grandson's ballgame.

When we came back to the Motorhome around 9:30 pm, there was water running out from underneath the Whale.  That is NEVER a good sign.  We had tried the ice maker and it was working while we were in Pueblo, but the 1/4" plastic line somehow came off the water filter and poured gallons of water everywhere.

I went out and bought a shop vac and we got busy extracting as much water as we could.  We have had fans, heaters and chamois working on getting it all out for two days and I pray that we have gotten it all. 

Yesterday we got to see our oldest grandson, Carter swim for his High School team.  He did a great job. He's the one on the stand on the left.

He beat his own best time and came in second in the 500 meter freestyle.
Here's the last few lengths of the race.

I took a picture before Barry, Tana and Craig were ready for me to.

I let them have a retake.

They were very loud, but I enjoyed the pep band.  I played in the Crown Point, Indiana High School Pep Band. My first year in the band was fifty years ago.  That's just not right.  Seems like just a few.

Hope that your days are becoming "Spring-like".

Blessings,

Kathy