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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

somewhere over the rainbow

I have only a few shots from the wedding, and way way more of the honeymoon. Here are some of my favorites, and if you haven't yet, you should go through the albums on facebook to see even more!

A pretty convincing shot at the slackline, beers included. (that thing was a hit at the wedding! AAll too literally with Uncle Steve, unfortunately...)

Dad: "I don't remember what I am supposed to do when we get to the bottom..."

Ben with a purse and a microphone. He knows how to make a statement.

Introducing...

Grandpa gave me a hand with my train on the dance floor

The honeymoon trip!
Here is the lovely little town of Ouray:

A nearby waterfall, you can see Spencer in the lower left corner. He is also about 80 feet above the bottom of it.

Along the Million Dollar Highway there is Red Mountain where lots of mining had happened (I am not sure if the mining is still active or not, there are tons of old and current mining areas out there!) We saw signs for "mining reclamation" and then noticed the rusty colored river flowing from them. Not sure if this is directly a result from the mining, because obviously the mountains have quite of bit of their own "rust" naturally, but still really interesting to see!

Another stream flowing into the Red Mountain Creek, that's how thick it looks.

We summited Mt. Sneffels (way more intense than the name sounds...) The geography out there has much more of a southwest feel to it, just very tall. Most of the surrounding peaks were 13,000, and that really tall one behind us is Uncompahgre, another 14er.

One of the parts where Spence and I debated whether or not it should have been labeled a class 2 hike (they did say a difficult class 2...)

It is hard to see how steep this is, but on the way back down we decided sliding down the hard gravel (think glissading without the snow) was easier that testing our luck on the bigger loose rock.

On the way home we saw signs for a national park we had missed on the way out, and was tucked away between national forests and recreation areas on the map. Black Canyon National Park, a big deep hole in the ground. Pretty cool!

We wanted to get our own National Parks mug collection started... but all they had were water bottles and magnets. Unfortunately we had to go with a magnet for this one.

Also lots of color on the drives, trees were starting to turn orange by the drive back, and lots of grasses and shrubs made the open spaces look painted! I thought they were cooler than the trees much of the time!

So now we are back in our little apartment trying to find furniture and eating on the floor. It's exciting. :) We keep getting compliments on how much fun the wedding was. We couldn't have done it without all your help with the silly little things, but I think it was worth it in the end. I was so relaxed the day of and it all went better than I imagined it would! I was sad I didn't get to hang out with you all more, but I can't say I expected to... Thanks again for making it a fitting end to our families weddings, and a hard one to top for Spencer's side! :)