Our original intent was to keep a journal of our first year of married life, but now, months later you have only march 15th to thank for your reading pleasure. Fortunately for you July 31st was last night and since every knows that is Mid-Year Resolution Day, August 1st gives you an update. Bring out the heavily inflated yet biodegradable non wildlife-killing balloons and ticker tape, lots of melt in-the-rain ticker tape.Since we like to think of ourselves as an outdoorsy couple we thought a few camping trips would be necessary to keep that reputation alive. Our most recent consisted of a Friday night drive to Maroon Bells and Snowmass outside of Aspen, a sleep at the conundrum trial head, a curious wake-up by a Porsche-driving lap-dog commanding over-outfitted man (who said, as he was donning a long-sleeve tech tee over his already sun-screen coated arms, to his disobedient dog, Cosmos, "I am your Master."), a heavy exhausting 8.5 mile wildflower-covered hike up a couple thousand feet in elevation, a treeline nook for our tent and our goal: natural hot springs. Oh, did I mention the natural part? Not quite sure to what degree he considered himself a naturalist but one particularly leather-tanned dude was void of threads and full of yoga-like movements which he proudly performed on the grassy knoll next to the hot springs and only during audience-filled intervals. I don't know if he was going for amused or awed but he got the former. We retreated the next day, cutting our time in half on the descent but traffic doubling it on the road, and then, finally, non-freeze-dried food and a clean shower.
Paul is currently unaware of my re-design or my resolution so i may leave the next informative update to him. (And hopefully that will be before Last Quarter of the Year Resolutions or we will be rounding up to a full year with a whole 3 updates for our friends and fans.)
