Weekend activities

We had an eventful weekend around these parts. On Saturday, we braved the trip into Denver to explore a bit. We went to a Rockies game-which was my first professional sports event. I actually quite enjoyed it and would not hesitate to go again. Yesterday we drove around in the mountains and went about 3/4 of the way through Rocky Mountain National Park. It was....very high. The road we took went over 12,000 feet which is the highest point on land that either of us had ever stepped foot on. For wildlife we saw a herd of about 30 elk (Bernie wishing for his gun and legality to shoot it there), ground mice/chipmunks, a marmot (yes, Sara, I will post pictures as soon as I can find a USB cord), and a furry catapiller. He was the highlight of my trip.

Now I am doing fun activities like laundry and ironing. My first day of classes are tomorrow. I'm with Kristen, feeling silly for being a bit nervous for yet another "first day of school." I actually already have homework in preperation for my statistics class-reading only, but still!

Congrats to Melanie on her new job with MSU Great Falls. Getting out of retail can't be a bad thing.

Our new house closes on Wednesday and then the ceiling removal and painting commences. I have almost settled on colors-yellow, light brown, and blue for the bedroom. I promised myself more bravery the second time around painting a house. Hopefully we can move in mid next week. It will be nice to cut 30 minutes off of my commute to school.

Hotel days

The wedding was a fairly good time. The service was a Catholic Mass, so it made little to no sense to me and it was a bit long. I loved that they had a small band playing Beatles music throughout. The reception was at a casino on an Indian reservation which was interesting. The food was really good (the london broil was anyway...there was no way I was trying the salmon) but it started at 2pm, which meant it was over by 6. Amy and I went out for awhile after that with some of our cousin's friends to a dueling piano bar. That was probobly the highlight of the whole trip. If you haven't been to one, try it out. Three Faggs married, ten to go!

We have been spending most of our time lately getting things sorted out for the new house. The biggest headache thusfar has been finding and scheduling someone to remove all of the popcorn ceilings (eeewww) and paint the inside. I hope to have all of this done so we can move in about two weeks. That means I will have to commute over an hour each way to school for the first two weeks. Amanda is not accustomed to traffic and the interstate, it is an awfully scary situation. Luckily, none of my classes start until 2pm which means my days of getting up early are over for the forseeable future. Not so for Bernie, who has to be at some of his shifts at 6am.

I am definately tiring of hotel life. Although I am enjoying Boulder...too bad the average house price is over $400,000. We are missing our dog quite a bit also. Bernie's parents plan to bring her back after we move it. Then my dad plans to visit the second week in October and my mom wants to come down for my birthday. I will admit that I am missing her too.

I had a strange dream last night. I was in my dad's house and two moose broke in and were chasing me around trying to kill me. Then Amy came to my rescue and the moose were as tame as kittens towards her. Strange.

In Washington

I am currently in Washington for my cousin's wedding. Here are a few photos of me with the Fagg clan:



My cousins Mary, Amy and Sarah with myself.
Sexy Ladies!

My dad and I

My aunt Jennifer and I

Our New House

Well, we have a house under contract to close August 27th. If anyone wants to see it go to coloproperty.com and search by MLS number (536793). It should bring up a house on Beech Circle. The listing price was $299,900. Our offer was $285,000 and we got it for $292,000. Exciting times as we will only have to live in this hotel for about twenty five days. They have done some updates to it already, including a new roof. The biggest downside is the popcorn ceilings which we may get a bid to have removed. I will also be doing some painting before we move in.

Most importantly, out dog will be pleased with the big yard. The yard feature is not as easily found in Colorado as it was in Montana. All of the new construction consists of large houses on tiny lots...I swear some of the yards are 5x5.

We have arrived

After a 12.5 hour trip on Sunday, we have made it to Boulder. We are staying at the Homewood Suites on the south side of town near where Bernie is working. He actually starts tomorrow. Then I will have to entertain myself for a while, at least until school starts on August 28th. I will be starting my MA in Gerontology at the University of Northern Colorado (the same school where the back-up punter stabbed the starting punter for his spot on the football team...nice!).

We were down here about three weeks ago for a househunting trip which did not yield a home. We looked at 50 houses then and 10 more today. We will be making an offer on one tonight. I will post more about it later.