where did july go?

somewhere between the big road trip back east and my flight back for my 10 year high school reunion July has slipped away. I haven't had time to do many posts or any collages but you can click on the new chaos flickr montage on the side bar to see some pics from our travels.... or click here to see some of the wedding, babies and other views from the crew at camp chaos...

vacationland

here's a small gathering of pics from the vacation thus far. a small view of Judson's, Chaos new souvenir collar, my new niece and nephew and the two new Sugarloafers. we're off to see some more folks in the valley before we depart tomorrow.

the return of the travel dog...

Our travel dog has returned! We made the big venture cross country in 40 hours and 4 minutes. The trip this time was a little harder as we weren't well rested and started the long journey out tired. We quickly fell into a pattern of sleeping and driving and Chaos became really good at the sleeping. We'd stop along the way and take walks on dirt roads in Iowa with the monster.
We faced a few traffic snafus- two hours of total stopped traffic in Iowa and a long creeping delay near Chicago. Go Turtle!
Chaos seemed very happy to be the travel dog again. He did a great job staying hydrated and eating his snacks along the wasy. He was pretty excited to pull into his grandparents house on Sunday afternoon and find his friends waiting for him.

prep work....

so we've been pretty busy with all the prep work for the trip. I'm actually feeling anxious as I am not anxious enough.... for this trip I pulled up my packing list from our cross country vacation spring '06 and made some modifications. Right now I am sitting in a hotel room so I had to be ready to go this morning. Dave and Chaos still have another 2 days at home. I know Dave's back is mostly packed and Chaos is all packed and the other items are sitting in the back of the Tacoma thanks to my OCD.
Good thing too as Dave didn't get home from work until after 10pm tonight- he leaves the house between 7:30-7:45am so that's one long day. Thankfully it was big Dave's day off so Chaos got dinner and some breaks at a decent time! He also had a puppy friend come over today and play (thanks Emmy!) and I may call for another to play tomorrow. I was feeling guilty about leaving him today so picked up some good road trip treats for him at Target this afternoon! I am so ready for vacation... it's been since last April (September didn't count as I had less then 1 week off between jobs to pack and move 2,600 miles! That's not a vacation!) Please forgive us if we're zombies when we return to Eastern Standard Time. We're going to need at least a day to recover from this last week!

a busy weekend....

whew. It's the end of a busy weekend in T. It was the 34th annual bluegrass festival . This brings over 12,000 people to a town that is less then 2,000. One of the nice parts about living in such a cool town is that people want to come and visit you! We had some old friends from Sugarloaf spend time on our couches and play with...
I'll do more on that another day... It was a busy and fun weekend and we're headed into a busier week as we go back to work and get ready to drive east on Friday. I actually did some packing this afternoon as it's going to be such a crazy week.

updates....

so here's a pic of the injury...it's been fun watching the different color blues my toes have changed. I'm still having issues walking but can drive the Tacoma which is a standard provided that I remember to use the ball of my foot. So this injury will not be affecting the trip... we leave in 19 days for the east coast.

skiing in june...

so the daves and their buddy cruisy got up early on Saturday and hiked for some turns in June. They headed over to Ophir pass in the truck and hiked to ski in yet another month.

quote for the day: "mmmm... corn.... is there anything it can't do?"

ode to the subaru...

last summer in Maine with a Moose

the end of an era is here. this weekend we said goodbye to the Subaru. It has gone on to another life with another couple and will be replacing a 1987 Subaru. It was time to part ways- the Subaru had been neglected for months and has only left telluride a handful of times. We don't need two cars here- Dave drives a company truck to work and Chaos and I ride the bus (we were walking home until the toe incident.)

So here's to road trips, pimping it out puppy style and cross country drives. We'll miss the Subaru and her heated leather seats, dual moon roofs and cruise control.