Last Day in Colorado

Today is our last day here in Colorado Springs.  Tomorrow we will head south on I-25 towards New Mexico where we plan on a few days in Santa Fe.  Rog is currently washing the bugs off the front of the RV (so there is room to collect more on the trip from here to home) while Maggie and I sit here and watch him work! 

Ben and Pam hanging with out the folks.

We have had a really good time here with Pam and Ben! Most of the time they spent with us here at the campground just "hanging out," which has been nice. They even brought Roger his favorite cake to celebrate us being here.  

Yesterday, though, we got to have lunch at Colorado College with them and then we had a tour of Pam's new workplace. She recently was hired as the Publications Coordinator for their library.  She is thrilled with the position (and benefits) and is looking forward to a long career there!  Colorado College is a private Liberal Arts college and is 2 blocks from where she lives.  It has a beautiful campus and is so perfect for her! They both had to work today.  Would you believe that the college's first day of class is today!!  Ben is still working for a defense contractor at one of the bases here and the work is 365 and 24/7 and today was his regular shift.  That gave us time, though, to get ready for the next leg of our road trip.

Pam and Ben fell in love with Maggie and I had to watch carefully that the dog didn't go home with them last night!!! It's a good thing they have cats or we might have found her missing! 

Dog is still having gut issues - but only in the middle of the night.  We have yet to figure out what the cause is.  We are now closing her in the bedroom with us at night so she has to make noise to get out, which she did four times last night!!  It is scary out there in the middle of the night, but when she's gotta go - she's got to go!  We have our fingers crossed that we will get a full night's sleep tonight before we get on the road tomorrow. We have gotten rid of the can of dog food we've been using to mix with her dry food thinking the "wet" food may have been contaminated and may be the cause of her GI distress. It's 7:00 PM and she's been good so far.  

Weather has been very warm during the day with some pretty strong afternoon thunderstorms.  We are still watching the weather - mostly the smoke alerts - at home and dissipation of the smoke will help determine how much longer we stay gone.  Current thinking is that we'll get home around the 15th - 17th.