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Urgrace

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SpongeBob I didn't forget you. You must've been having a good time, since you got to go everywhere and do everything. Your nights were spent with your wet pants (almost) drying in the window and I'm not sure who you slept with, but Buttercup made sure you were comfortable. I caught you napping in the cabin once, and captured your smiling face with the group. You are such a squirt!

Gail

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grace - thanks for that nice recap of our week at camp. It brought back some very pleasant thoughts. I keep thinking I want to write up a Top 10 favorite moments or some kind of recap myself. Last week I had a lot of distractions to deal with - mostly to do with work so hopefully this week I can try an narrow down what I enjoyed the most.

What was it that made Merlin blush? I remember it happening but I can't remember what caused it.

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 08:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wish I lived closer! It sounds like you all had a great time.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is this the photo caption thread?

"Buttercup and Zed blow noses into invisible handkerchiefs"

Urgrace

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 09:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
On Saturday hubby, son and I left the resort and headed upstate Minnesota to visit Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox and see the Mississippi headwaters, then took a ride out of the bountiful tree and lake smattered state into North Dakota.

After driving west to Minot through fields of rolled hay and sunflowers then south we spent the night in Bismark.

The next day we mosied west again to Belfield then south. Nearing Bell Fourche we stopped along the highway to change drivers, a rancher stopped to see if we needed any help. He was quite a talker and gave us some information about the area including the white bluffs and geographical center of the US. He also clued us in on the 'open range' that was placed in a field near the highway.

Next we drove into the South Dakota Black Hills. Here we saw Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monuments. As we drove we skirted the forest fires and luckily were not in any danger.

Our drive ended up in Lusk, Wyoming for the night. Further west in Douglas, a quaint little town where the state fair was held the week before, we visited a train museum and the Wyoming Pioneers Memorial Museum.

We ventured around Wyoming in a circle viewing cattle ranches, large metal sculptures of buffalo, jack-a-lopes, and birds (and real antelope, deer, and buffalo too.) Independence Rock and Devil's Gate were massive rock formations with US historical significance.

We left from Laramie the next morning and ventured into the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Pike's Peak was amazing at 14,110 feet in elevation.

We entered New Mexico in the early evening. A brown bear running across the prairie caught our eye since it wasn't far from the car. It wasn't easy racing the sun and 25 mph curves of Hwy 64 through the Kit Carson National Forest and Sangre De Cristo Mountains in order to reach Taos before sundown.

If you've never been to Taos, I must say it is a treat. The entire town is built in either adobe style or stucco. Here we visited the Indian Pueblo village and ate pies baked in the earthen ovens.

I visited this thread from the library in Taos. BB was on the two nights we spent here, but hubby and son watched the Indian dances and pow wows.

We headed for Texas and ended up in Pecos (Teatime this is your old stomping grounds, yes?) This is where we had a flat tire on the luggage trailer and finally saw a jack rabbit and road runner. The long ride through the desert brought us to the hill country and then home.

Hope you all enjoyed our long trip!

Kstme

Sunday, August 25, 2002 - 10:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the update Grace! I've been to many of those places but a century ago...aahhhh...wonderful memories!

Gail

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 01:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggyish . . . after being on this roadtrip, even if the next one was in Alaska, I wouldn't miss it. :)

Resortgirl

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 05:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Grace, I KNEW I should have stowed away in your luggage trailer! It sounds like you had a wonderful time on your extended road trip! Meeting you in person was an honor (you have a heart of gold)! Your little chipmunk has been pacing in front of your cabin looking for his daily trailmix breakfast. I don't know what to do about him! He's looking pretty hungry. Thank you for the beautiful card that you left me in your cabin. I will cherish it forever!

I can't remember the specifics of Merlin's blushing incident either! Please fill me in!!!

Also, please apologize to your Brother in Laws for me. I never did get a chance to wash the bugs off there 25 foot HIGH RV...I just got so busy with the rest of you! LOL!
Glad your home safe and sound and I hope that we can get into chat sometime together. Things will slow down considerably here after Labor Day.

Gail

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 05:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember that it was probably Sunday evening because that was the day a few people got too much sun. :) Even with that touch of sun, we could still tell he was blushing.

This is a time that we could have used a live feed poster. :)

Tess

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 08:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I got 5 rolls of film back today and there are some very nice pictures of the lake and a couple of cute ones of Bob that I'll post later tonight. I'm a tad busy at the moment multi-tasking. :)

Merlin

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 08:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm just saying, the only thing I can think of that would make me blush didn't happen. It was a touch of too much sun.

Gail

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, you were blushing!!!

<gail smacks Merlin with a wet walleye>

splat

Lancecrossfire

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gracie, your words on your Sunday post are too kind. (well, the ones about me)

Tess

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 09:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
First of my version of events......
Here are the fish Bob was after:Bobsfish

And here is what he really caught:BobsCatch

I found that using potato chips as bait worked better than any of that fancy stuff the real fisher people were using.

Tess

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
And here's poor, worn out Bob in the aftermath of his fishing expedition. What a pitiful sight.
PoopedOutBob

Tess

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob really did live the good life most of the week. Not only did he have some gorgeous person in a bikini ferry him out to the float.....
Bobswimming

but he also got to lounge in the sun and work on his tan all afternoon.....
Boblounging

What a lucky Sponge!

Tess

Monday, August 26, 2002 - 10:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, that's all the Sponge news for now. Here are a couple shots of what we looked at when we weren't following Bob's antics. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did. The colors on the computer don't really do justice to the paradise we got to experience. :)

sailboat

sunset1

sunset2

Thanks again, RG, for sharing your little corner of paradise with all of us! You really are a dear.

Gail

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 03:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess - thanks for posting those last two pictures! I was there when you took them and remember thinking how peaceful it looked. Especially the last one.

Reader234

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Truly beautiful!! I love the pictures, and cant imagine what real life must look like, these are awesome!! thanks for sharing!

Resortgirl

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, You'll have to email those to me so I can use them on my website...

Resortgirl

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, I guess I DO live in paradise... thanks for the pictures!!

Wink

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 08:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great pictures Tess. RG your little corner of the world looks beautiful.

SpongeBob on the air mattress is a hoot.

Bob2112

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 09:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
:)

Urgrace

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh the memories..... nice pics, Tess.

Teatime

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for sharing your stories and pictures, everyone! All I can say is, you people sure know how to vacation. I have Minnesota resort envy. What a spectacular area, RG.

It's good to have all of you back home safe and sound. (Gracie: Yup, I used to go to Pecos to the movie theater and to the Sonic drive-in for a cherry lime Sprite and onion rings!)