Almost Friday!

A little late but. . . HAPPY BE-LATED EASTER!! Hopefully you got an easter basket filled with lots of good treats!

BREAKING NEWS: I have discovered a new favorite band and if you haven't heard of them you need to listen to them. We went to the Bob Dylan/Merle Haggard concert on Monday. .woah let me tell you Bob is getting old!! He looked like he just woke up. But anyways I stray from the "real" story. . .The opening band before Merle was Amos Lee. I was moved. The music was great, the songs great, the voice great! So of course Al and I did what any other fan would do, we found out he was playing at a bar last night and went to see him. . get this $8 for a ticket!! Isn't that great. Anyways you can check out his site to listen to 3 of his songs www.amoslee.com But the fun one isn't on the site, my favorite is Bottom of the Barrel. Fun folky song. So anyways if you get a chance I highly recomend for you to check him out. And if you see he is playing in your town. . GO. You will not be disappointed. We just bought the cd tonight and believe it or not, it doesn't do him justice. His voice is so great. And one of his band members played the guitar, mandalin and trumpet (very multi-talented!). Oh there is also an NPR interview on him too http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4541649

Alright enough of my ramblings about my favorite group. Our cats are on the nip right now. . actually the after effects of the nip. Anne is laying down beside me while Tucker is curled up on the chair. You gotta love them. They were going crazy, we got them a new cat nip filled stuffed squirrel. Al tied it to fishing string and dragged it around while they frantically chased it. HA HA. . our entertainment for tonight!! Well happy almost FRIDAY!!

Us on the Rocks! 

The ELK are coming!! Watch out Mr. Truck. 

Here is me in my CLEARANCE shirt from Target!! Keepin it Real 

Okay I'm slacking

So I slacked just a little missed a weekend but now I am back! Last weekend we discovered a mall. A mall you say, no big deal. . .but this was no ordinary mall. It was both indoors and outdoors and they even had a doughnut guy making fresh mini donuts. And they even had one of those popcorn stands in the middle. . but I have to say the popcorn just didn't taste as good as it smelled. Anyways enough of me talking about junk food!!

Our St. Patrick's day was fun too. . .I had big . . .BIG plans to go and see an Irish band play at an Irish bar in Lodo. . .it was all pictured in my mind . . .dinner, music and green beer. But to my dismay, it ended up being a huge ol beer tent. I know some of you may be saying. .Jess that sounds pretty cool. But you see I envisioned a sit down dinner with music. . and just a fun sit down time. Not a crammed in a tent with lots of people falling all over and spilling beer. So we wandered around and found a brewery with 4 Irish men singing some Irish songs. It was great!! No green beer though :( But great food.

Al and I are both sitting next to each other on the couch with a laptop on each of our laps and Anne(our cat) is smooshed right between us looking from screen to screen. Al and I just looked at each other and said. . what are we doing?? It is almost 1 am here on a Sunday night and we are still awake!! Here is me updating my blog site and Al is buying Bob Dylan/Merle Haggard tickets for next week. You gotta love modern technology!!

Anyways I'm attaching some pictures from this weekend. . we went to Estes Park again. . it was great!! And we saw animals. . .horses, cows, lamas, mule deer and are you ready for this elk!! There was tons. . . sitting on the side of the road even walking on the side. I am quite sure that I got a wave of the ear when I said goodbye to one of them. I know it was communicating to me and saying bye!!

Better stop rambling and attach those pictures. HAPPY NEW WEEK!!

Of course most importantly Tucker and Anne at a hard's day work of laying around in the sun. 

This picture is taken from the bunny hill but that big mountain is the one we went on for the green route. Pretty cool huh! 

Hit the clearance racks for our snazzy ski look and now here we are. . .Ready to GO! 

After the weekend

Good news .. . we didn't break any bones skiing!! We are both a little sore today though walking like we are 80 years old! But we had a great time-thank you Andy & Claudia for inviting us!! Al and I decided to take half day lessons since we are both fairly new to the sport. I was a little worried that it was just going to be us and a bunch of kids. Can you see it. . Al and I next to a bunch of kids who are flying by us on the hills!! But luckily there were other adults there taking lessons too. They had a separate class for kids so we were in business.

Of course we fell a couple of times but we did go on the green route which is the easiest, but it is no bunny hill. I have a feeling that we will definitely pick this up as something that we will probably spend lots of time doing. As soon as I get a chance I will post pictures because it was so beautiful!! We were probably up there 11,500 feet or so it was amazing. Definitely a long way from NYC. I love NY, but I think I could find myself loving Denver even more!

The weekend

Okay so it is Saturday pre afternoonish and it is absolutely beautiful outside. . .Rumors of it being 60 degrees out! Last night Al and I went to the 2005 Banff World Tour. . basically it was a film festival all about the outdoors sponsored by REI and National Geographic. There were different films that they showed about ice climbing, skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, etc.. One was about this guy and his dog crossing Australia in 100 and something days, it was a little sad though because the dog didn't make it. I thought they should have some kind of disclaimer at the beginning so you knew not to get to attached to the dog. . . but nope, they made me get teary eyed!!! It was our first introduction to the outdoor life here.

So tomorrow we are going skiing. Yep Al and I are going to try out skiing before the season ends. I'll let you know if we break any legs or anything. Well have a super duper Saturday!! Oh and Anne and Tucker say hi!

So far this is the only picture I have on my computer of just me. . .Yep this is me walking down the street. . .yes just walking down the street. . strolling along. 

Hello World!!

This is it. . .my very first blog site and I am saying HELLO World!! Woohoo I am out there! Hope you will enjoy all my ramblings and random thoughts about life, food, music, movies and whatever else sounds like fun to go on about. This will definitely be the spot to see what is happening in my life and all that fun stuff.

How exciting!!!