New York Dolls

Okay, so it's been a few months since this trip, but I forgot my camera and it took a while for us to get these pictures. Nevertheless, we took one last day trip up to the Big Apple with friends Lauren and Andrew before we headed out to Colorado. My wish for this trip was to take a ferry around the island. We purchased our tickets from the National Park Service.

Lauren and Andrew Sutton: We miss you guys!

Andrew really wanted to go to a Yankees game (mostly to see the new stadium) and it just happened that the only day we could go, the Yankees were playing the Mets: Bad idea. Our tickets ended up costing way more than they should have and the fans were crazy!
Fun times taking the Subway!
Fun times made even funner with these guys on our car! They stepped on all quiet and shy and all of the sudden started playing a loud song. One kid on the car was plugging his ears and complaining to his mom. When they finished, they walked around for tips and continued on to the next car. It was so random.
After the game we went to the south (?) side of Manhattan and made a stop at a very important store. It wasn't until later that I found out you can get their peanut butter for about half the price in several grocery stores in the US. Lauren LOVES peanut butter.
We also took a stroll through Washington Square. This is the park everyone is playing music on in August Rush. It is seriously crazy. There were all types of performers.
Most impressively, this man who drew pictures with colored sand. The pictures were amazing, but will blow away at the first gust of wind.
We miss being close to so many fun things in VA, but we're doing well in Colorado. There's not as much time for exploring and trips right now, but we're having fun!

More Colorado Scenery

I found this "open space" called Davidson Mesa when doing my long runs. (Colorado names all of their open spaces, aka: fields of nothing.) It is actually between Louisville and Boulder, but I enjoy running there because you feel like you are alone in the world. You're actually pretty close to civilization, so don't worry mom.

Our Townhouse

We've really enjoyed living in Colorado so far. Tim is enjoying school, and I'm enjoying looking for a job (sometimes). We really like our ward. In fact, we're even speaking on Sunday! We live in a beautiful town just a few miles southeast of Boulder called Louisville (pronounced: loo-is-ville), and we love being out of DC traffic and close to "American" stores (I called Falls Church International America). Below are some pictures of our townhouse. We feel spoiled because it has two bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms.

Our bedroom (we have a beautiful fan and stand due to our no a/c, but we haven't even turned it on this past week)
The kitchen. The front door is to the left of the picture and the fridge is behind the left wall. Our front window is also behind the wall which is kind of weird, but it works. I LOVE that there is an open counter above the sink. Other units have a wall there.
The other side of the first floor. The kitchen opens into the dining area. The door here is actually our back door and our stairs are just to the right of the picture.
The upstairs hallway taken from inside our spare bedroom. At least you can see the stairs.Our lovely back porch.
And our backyard. We really got the bottom of the barrel for backyards. Behind the fence is a big road (though not terribly big, relatively) and most of the other yards have grass. We're just happy to have a yard though.
This ends our tour. Thank you for joining us.