Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Simpsons and the Bloughs



Here's some pictures of the Simpsons and Brooke at my parent's house in Windsor right after we got back from Vegas.

Monday, July 30, 2007

The Badlands..






Our Explorer does not have air conditioning, and Mya's expressions explain how all of us felt.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Wyoming, round II





The Simpson family went camping in Wyoming this weekend. We reserved a campsite at Glendo Resevoir, which was much nicer then our first camp ground in Wyoming. During the trip while expressing his concern about tent stakes, John realized that he had forgotten to pack the tent. Have you ever been North on I-25 in Wyoming? There isn't anything there. So we stop in Wheatland and John goes to ask the woman at the Sinclair station if there are any Wal-Marts or Targets around she says, "Are you kidding me?" They did have a store called Pamida, and we ended up getting a good deal on a BIG tent. We went to bed around 8 o'clock on Friday night, and woke up early, ate breakfast, and drove up to South Dakota. We stopped first at the Crazy Horse Memorial, http://www.crazyhorse.org/, which is amazing. It is the largest sculpture in the world. Then on to Mount Rushmore. They don't accept credit cards there, and we don't usually carry cash, so we got pictures from a distance. Then we drove to Wall Drug. Ok, we had heard that this was a place to check out if you're in South Dakota. There are signs for Wall Drug for miles and miles. 5 cent coffee, free water, doughnuts. Sounds like a small heaven on earth. We get there, split a buffalo burger, and head off to look for some bug spray. We are, I'll remind you, at a drug store. We find some Off and it cost us over $10!!! Rip off of the century. Then we went to get doughnuts. The smell was amazing, they were cooking fresh doughnuts, we could see the fresh doughnuts, we get up to the counter and see a sign that says, "Register Closed. Buy Doughnuts at the Cafe." We had seen the doughnuts at the cafe, they were not fresh. Then we wanted icecream. They had signs everywhere, the soft serve was Out of Order, the milkshakes were Out of Order. John got one scope of hard icecream and it was like $3. They had like 7 kinds, and none that I liked. That is nearly impossible. So my suggestion to you - STAY AWAY FROM WALL DRUG.

Coming tomorrow - the Badlands

Monday, July 23, 2007

More from LV - Death Valley





We got up at 2:15 AM and left our hotel to drive out to Death Valley. It is about an hour and a half drive. (I don't remember it because I slept the whole way there and back!) The average temp for Death Valley in July is 115'. When we got there we saw the sunrise, and as the pictures show it was amazing. The second picture is at badwater basin. There is salty water in the basin of Death Valley. That is actually the lowest point in the 48 states, you can sort of see in the picture a little white sign. That sign says, Sea Level. We left Death Valley around 9 o'clock. It was already really hot. The final picture is on the drive home, John stopped the car periodically (while I was sleeping) and got some nice pictures of the scenery and plants. I thought Death Valley would be as terrible as the name sounds, but it was actually one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I would recommend seeing the sunrise there some morning. Here's a link to the web-site so you can check it out.
http://www.nps.gov/deva/

Friday, July 20, 2007

Vegas!!





The first picture is at Hoover Dam.
The second picture is us at the arcade, we didn't gamble much.
The third picture is John in Death Valley at sunrise. Something everyone should see.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Monday, July 2, 2007

Greeley Stampede



On Friday night the Blough and Simpson families went to the Greeley Stampede. We started by watching the bareback rodeo thing - that was fun. Don't ask me about the roping competitions, I'm still scarred by the sight of those little baby cows or steers or whatever. Trauma. But the food, oh the glorious food! I had an Indian taco (fry bread with taco stuff on top), John had a steak on a stick, my Dad had a chili dog, Brooke fries, and Rhoda a burger. Then the REAL thrill - Funnel Cake!! That was the best thing. The bull riding was a bust - only three of the guys could even stay on the bull for 8 seconds. Then there was the motocross tricksters. They did flips and other stupid tricks on their bikes. I say stupid because who but a stupid person would launch themselves through the air on a bike and do tricks?? Brooke was looking for cowboys to date. I don't know how successful she was. We had a great time. It was a Colorado highlight for me. If you are planning in coming and paying us a visit do it around this time and we'll take you to the Stampede. The website is http://www.greeleystampede.org/

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Mya and Ginger





Coming next- The Rodeo!!

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