Goodbyes are so hard for me!

I just saw Craig get on his plane and now I am waiting for mine. As a bonus I think that I have a huge group of teenage girls on my flight. They are sitting in the floor near my gate doing something that makes them burst into laughter every couple of minutes. It reminds me of my senior trip to cancun, I really felt sorry for the regular people on that flight. Anyway, so yeah, waiting for the flight and being really sad. I wish that I wasn't as emotional as I am but I just can't help it. I love seeing Craig and spending time with him but the leaving part is really hard on me. It doesn't seem to bother him nearly as much but maybe that is because he is a guy. The saddest part is that I am going to see him again next weekend because I am flying there for the weekend and really I will be in Albany all week so it is just two nights I am missing with him. I just get so used to being with him when it has been a week and I have gotten to sleep next to him every night. I have plenty to keep me busy all week to so really I shouldn't be so sad. I think that I look to the future too much and after next weekend it will be almost a month before I get to see him again and we have barely gone that long this whole year! That is when it really starts to get hard!

I must say that our trip was a lot of fun! The weather was beautiful the last two days that we were there! Yesterday I even got to wear one of my sundresses so I was excited about that! When I looked at the weather before I left it was sunny and 70-80 everyday. I packed all the shorts I owned (all 4 pairs) and my various colors of tank tops, needless to say, I had to do laundry while I was there cause it was so cold. Hopefully our next vacation will be warmer! We got a park pass on this trip so we are going to try to hit a few more of those. I really want to go to Death Valley National Park and to see the redwoods so hopefully we will do that at the end of the summer or in the fall depending on thebudget season for Craig's job. Teenage girls are laughing again. Good times! Looks like I won't sleep on this flight....oh well, guess I will work on sorting throughtthe pictures from the trip so I can upload some of them. All this brought to you curtesy of my blackberry :-)

5 miler!!

well, ladies and gents..I hiked today...forever!! It was 5.3 miles round trip!! I was proud of myself because that was the longest hike I have ever been on. It was actually really a great hike because in Colorado you don't have to hike straight up a mountain so you sort wind through it all. Actually, when we were coming down I realized just how much we had gone uphill during the hike. My feet were pretty tired by the end of it all but it was fun! I am still working on getting together the travel blog of the trip and hopefully I will have it mostly done by the end of the weekend or the beginning of next week. I have enjoyed reading all of your blogs though!

For some reason Craig and I got talking about websites today on the hike and then he was playing with my blackberry on the way back and was reading stories from the onion and then we started talking about websites again and how I wanted to expand my daily websites so when we got home we started looking at some that he visits when we got back to his parents house. When looking through some of the websites that accumulate stories from different areas we found this gem. Enjoy ladies!!

Straight Cash Homey we laughed for a while about these!

Travel Blog

Ok, I have gotten one post done on our travel blog...I can't promise anything exciting and I definitely have better pictures from other days but this is the first one I got done...I still have to do the Niagara ones...I just have the day before we went.

Traveling with Craig and Melissa

patience....

How do you get it if you don't have it? Molly, got any patience exercises that I can do? (by the way, love the creative exercises and plan on doing them once I am not on vacation anymore). I find that I get really impatient really easily....I can't help it! I just don't know how to stop it....I know it is much better to be relaxed and go with the flow and not get impatient when people are late or when it takes an hour to figure out what we are going to do for the day or when people want to take a little longer than I do at something. Why can't I just stand and listen to someone's stories even though I might not want to hear them just to be nice? I just can't figure out any way to make myself be more patient. I actually think that I have gotten better about it since I started dating Craig but lately I feel like I am losing it again and starting to get worse! Anyway, if you have any suggestions, let me know.

One of the boys...

Hi guys...I know some of you have missed me when you start telling me that my post titles are misspelled :-) I am here in CO still but I have a little bit of time right now since Craig is fixing his dad's computer for him. They always have something that he looks at every time he is here. I actually have been working on another blog that is about the travels that Craig and I take (so it will include this trip but so he doesn't have to read this one or share this one with his family or whoever he wants to know about our travels) but I haven't actually finished a post yet so I haven't been able to get any of them up for you guys to read....but here is this....

Today was a day with the boys. Craig's friend Jason came with us and we went into Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a lot of fun but have you ever noticed how different boys act when you are the only girl? I think that it is made worse by the fact that they have known each other since childhood so they sort of have their own language that I don't really get or understand and they have all their old stories. Don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun with them, but I definitely was quieter today than other days when it was just Craig and I. Craig also likes to climb everything and explore everything so having another guy there doesn't discourage it like I do...I spent a lot of time waiting on him and hoping he didn't break anything...again, not that I mind. It is just so funny to me and it made me start to wonder if guys feel that way when they are with a group of girls...do they feel sort of lost like they don't know what is going on or do they just not care cause they are with a group of girls? Hmmm....I would think that it would be a little of both. I am also very tired because today was a long day with many altitudes and many different climates! I am sort of ready for bed but I want to be social (even though I am typing while his mom talks on the phone to someone and he helps his dad with the computer). Tomorrow we are supposed to go hiking which I am happy about because the last few days have been in the car and even though the scenery has been beautiful, my body is tired of being in a car...especially one where I can't figure out how to lay the seat back so I sit straight up most of the day. Hopefully it will not rain on us or I will be back in the car again! Tomorrow we are also supposed to hang out with his sister who I love so I am excited about seeing her! Ok, I am going to go and work on my travel blog for a little while...hopefully I can get a post or two up soon with some pictures for you guys....

Start of the trip....Saturday

(I typed this in my blackberry on the plane but since the darn internet on that thing doesn't work I had to email it to myself and then copy and paste it). This morning started out a little hectic. I forgot that I needed to allow extra time for marta and I forgot that I wasn't flying delta (who I normally fly) so I wasn't sure how far in advance I needed to check my bag! I got scare because when I got to the airport I had to walk a ways to get to american and there seemed to be lines everywhere. Not good. Then the good luck started. For whatever reason the lines were not for the domestic check in that I needed. Score. I checked in t 7:52 for my 8:45 flight! Then there was security and again I lucked out because that only took 5 mins and since I was at the t gate I was already at my gate. Yay! Then I got on the plane and all is good until the devil child got on. He was about 3 or 4 and he was screaming. Now, I don't have kids but most people I know do and I am pretty sure that they would not let a child that old scream like that on a plane but the mom was acting like nothing was wrong! The I was lucky enough to have them sit across the aisle and behind me. Super! The lady next to me had a theory at first that maybe he was kidnapped cause when she got divorced from her first husband she told her daughter to scream if her dad tried to put her on a plane the first time that she went to visit him. It actually wasn't a bad theory, this kid was going nuts! He was also saying something (or screaming it) but it was chinese or japanese or something so we didn't know what it was. It seemed like he wanted something so I told that lady next to me that they should just give him what wanted. She said that was a bad idea because he would pitch a bigger fit next time and I said I didn't care as long as I want on a plane with him the next time. I also told her that the mom wasn't the best parent to begin with because when I was that age and I started to pitch a fit all I would have needed was one look from my mom and it would have been over really fast! This kid was too old for this for this long in my opinion and had the mom done anything I would have thought it was just one of those moments where the parents really can't help that their kid is having a meltdown but this seemed more like a regular occurrence that they ignored and that I feel like is bad parenting! Luckily after 40 mins of this he fell asleep and was fine after that. If had written this then, it would have been a lot harsher! I think that I told Craig I would see him in denver if I didn't get arrested for killing this kid!

(from later that day) All flights were on time so that was good. We didn't do much once we got back to his parents house and instead just took a nap for a couple hours since we had gotten up so early. After the nap we got a shower and then headed into Boulder to meet up with one of Craig's friends from when he was growing up and his girlfriend. We decided to go to downtown Boulder and ate at this awesome Italian restaurant...mmmmm, pesto cream sauce with gnocchi!! Yummy. I also had two glasses of house chianti and was amazed how tipsy I got from it...darn altitude! We didn't get back to his parents house until midnight CO time which is obviously two hours earlier than our time so it was really 2am for us...needless to say we went to bed really fast, I barely remember my head even hitting the pillow. I will keep you updated!

Vacation Time!!

Well guys, the time has finally come for my vacation...of course in tune with the week Craig called me tonight and told me that they cancelled his flight tomorrow (we were meeting in Dallas to connect and fly to Denver together) so now I am on my own :-( Not a big deal but I could have flown direct for a little more if I wasn't trying to meet up with him. Oh well.....my crackberry's internet isn't working right now (no idea why and did a search and couldn't find anything)....keeps giving me an error message that it has a connection error to the data service and that the network might be busy but it has said that since 4pm today. My plan was to keep up while I was traveling but now it is not looking very good. If you don't hear from me for a few days then do not worry that I choked on a UTI pill....I just don't have internet! Hopefully I can still sneak away at Craig's parents house to get my fix if I can't get the crackberry working....if I don't post again then I hope that everyone has a great weekend and week!