Hi everybody! So its painfully apparent that even with internet access (thanks to our neighbors router!) and free time, I still am lame about posting to my blog.... so a few weeks late here are some photos from our Thanksgiving!
First we celebrated an early Thanksgiving in Kansas with Aunt Daisy and Uncle George which Dad and Julie and her whole family made it out to (pictures from that may make a later appearance pending Christmas). Then on Wednesday before the big day Craig and I rented a yurt for two nights in Colorado's State Forest State Park. It was amazing! On our drive in we saw 3 moose in a wet meadow surrounded by snow and we got to see flocks of snow geese migrating south, calling to each other as they went.
But best of all was the yurt itself! To reach it you park at a trailhead and hike about a mile in - we hiked in our Thanksgiving dinner- green chile elk stew with hominy and cornbread (thanks to Darrell's recipe!). The yurt has a woodburning stove for warmth (we took turns getting up at night to stoke the fire- it was cold!) in addition to a propane 2-burner campstove. We hiked and explored, drank hot chocolate, tracked coyotes, rabbits, mice, elk, deer and moose through the snow, and tried to teach ourselves to cross-country ski... we had the trails completely to ourselves til our cross-country ski back out to the car Friday afternoon... All in all I couldn't imagine a nicer way to spend a holiday, unless it was with all our friends and family there too!
Oh, be sure to check out the video at the end of the post for a tour of the interior of the yurt (and me looking like a person who hasn't bathed in a couple days!). You can check out some pictures from Craig's blog too.
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Man that video had a cheesy ending. And apparently somethings never change Anika (i.e. your lack of showering). I was in New Mexico, I remember you two and your showerlessness. So gross.
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