Friday, July 11, 2008

We got up early enough to make it over to the Garden of the Gods a little after 8 am. There were quite a few people there, but none were crawling on the Balanced Rock. So we got our pictures and then made it over to the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument by a little after 9 am.

The ranger that greeted us really gave us a good over view of the monument. He answered a lot of questions... we had our own private lecture with him. Then we went on the one mile hike. It was amazing to see redwood tree stumps petrified. They had been huge trees at one time. The story of this monument is very interesting.

After our walk Frank purchased a book about Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Finally a good souvenir for him. I promised him I would read it too. Then we had a picnic lunch.

We had planned going into to Ft. Carson, but we were both tired.... I guess all the sight-seeing and mountain air finally caught up with us.

We dropped by Wal-Mart for bread and luncheon meat. We can't buy much bread at a time... it just seems to dry out quickly. We had hoped to find a small bouquet of flowers in a vase or a small planter of house plants at Wal-Mart as a "thank you" for the lady (Linda) that has been so helpful here at the campground... but they didn't have anything suitable. We stopped at a grocery store on the way back... can't remember the name of it and it had a nice minature rose. Linda really has been helpful beyond the call of duty.

Much appreciated long showers were taken this afternoon. This is the first campground / rv park that has furnished body shampoo... melon is the flavor, but it doesn't really smell like a melon to either of us.

We sorted the laundry so we can get an early start at it.... we have either 4 or 5 loads depending on the size of the washers here.

I copied the pictures to a dvd this afternoon and then Frank helped make sure I used the external hard drive correctly and I copied them to it. It worked fine. So now... three copies of the pictures... oh and some are copied to the internet too. So maybe we can keep these memories for a long time.