up north

On Thursday, we went up north of the city for a couple of reasons. The first was that Cyndi had a job interview for a teaching position with a school district in Windsor, CO. After that, we drove a few miles east to spend the day with Paul's aunt Judy, uncle Bruce, and cousins Kenny and Sally (Stacey was visiting a friend in Seattle). Paul hadn't seen Sally since she was 2 years old, and no one in his family had met Kenny. The picture below is proof that he really exists. We were there for lunch and dinner, and had a good time catching up and getting a tour of Eaton, CO and the schools that Judy teaches at.

After a great home cooked meal (a nice change from eating out all week) and pictures, we headed out loaded up on Mountain Dew. When we got to the freeway, we noticed that Wyoming was only 40 miles away. That was closer than our hotel, so we figured if worse came to worse we could always just stay in Cheyenne for the night. Just going up there would knock another state off of our list. So we headed up, refueled on caffeine in Cheyenne, WY and headed back. On the way back we had a bit of an adventure as Paul had a choice of running into the side of a semi or hitting a mattress in the road at 75mph. We hit the mattress hard, but were amazed to find that it didn't even scratch the rental car. We felt very lucky because we would have had to pay for any damages.