We have vacated

Katie and I are in Colorado for a few days, having begun our vacation early Saturday morning with a flight out of Dallas... just after the tornadoes made a visit there.

So far the vacation has been great. The first day we were here, within 10 minutes of being in our condo I was taking a nap and Katie was watching TV. We shopped for groceries and ordered Dominoes pizza for the night and just relaxed all day.

Yesterday, the vacation really began. We're a mile or so away from the entrance to the Rocky Mountain National park, which was one of the reasons I was convinced this was where we should spend our vacation. I wanted to be in the mountains and have a good chance to get some pictures of wildlife and snow covered mountains.

So, yesterday we set out to get into the park for a few hours (on our anniversary) and we ended up being amazed at how much wildlife was actually in the park. We thought it would be somewhat difficult to find elk and deer (we're city folk, remember). They're everywhere though... we even saw an elk or two hanging out at a miniature golf course in town. We took a couple different trails to see what we could find, and after taking our fill of pictures for the day, we headed home.

For the big 1st anniversary night, we made reservations at a restaurant here in town called the twin owls steak house. It's been a low key vacation, so far... and that's how I'd prefer it to be. Today we're heading to Denver to see the town.

Check out our flickr page for a few of the pics we took yesterday.