More Raft Pictures

An earlier post from Barb told about the white water rafting trip down the Clark Fork river on July 11. I bought a waterproof disposable camera to take on the rafting trip and now have these pictures to show. I selected four of them to put on the blog along with two that were taken by Jeff Childre, a professional photographer who uses a high speed camera and gets 20+ shots of groups going down the rapids. His shots are great and we ordered the CD but we had to have it mailed to Will and Heather’s house. I was able to get a few emailed to me from Jeff for the blog. Thanks Jeff! (www.clarkforkphoto.com).

The couple in the middle seat are Amy and Richard from Stephensville, Montana. Amy ended up in the middle of about half of my snapshots as Barbara was quick to point out. But hey, I was always turning around to show the rapids we just shot. What could I do? I was just glad to have a few of Jeff’s action shots from one of the large rapids because my snaps were always before or after the white water.

Moab to Show Low

We left Grand Junction at about 8:30 PM and drove through the most spectacular light show of lightening that we have ever seen. It was a bit scary but we pushed on and finally made it to Moab safe and sound. Moab is right outside of Arches National Park and set in the middle of spectacular red rock formations. We kicked back for the early part of the day and then went to Arches park for the late afternoon and evening. You will see evidence of that in the pictures.

On Wednesday, we left Moab for Show Low, AZ and a visit with Bill’s sister, Linda and brother-in law, Joe. They have a place in Show Low that they spend time in during the summer to get away from the heat near Phoenix. It’s so great to see them. We enjoyed another one of Joe’s great dinners ( boy do we miss them ), and had fun catching up. This morning we are catching up on our blog and hanging out with Linda and Joe. It’s so nice to have time to spend this way.

Hope all is well back East!!

Boulder to Grand Junction

We decided to take a day and visit Boulder. It is a lot bigger than we remember it – but that was a long time ago. Neat town. The University of Colorado is located here, which always enhances the character of any town. There is a very nice city center on Pearl street and several blocks is pedestrian only, containing restaurants, bars and shopping. The day we were here there was also an Arts and Crafts show with tents set up in the walkway and in the nearby park. We decided to book a hotel for Will and Heather’s last night.
So the last day we checked into the hotel early and spent the afternoon at the pool. Wow, did we enjoy that. You know there is traveling and vacationing – these are two very different things. We have been traveling for a long time and it can be tiring – we were all ready for an afternoon of vacationing – hence the afternoon at the pool.

On Monday we packed up and took Will and Heather to Denver airport. It was very sad to see them leave. We had a great time traveling together!

After the airport, we headed west through Colorado toward Grand Junction and a visit with Linda Bynum and her children Matt and Jessica. Stopped in Vail for a walk around and then right to Grand Junction. Grand Junction turned out to be a great place with a nice little downtown. Linda, Matt, and Jess took us to Pablo’s for some of the best pizza we’ve had anywhere. It was so nice to catch up with Linda. We haven’t seen her in so long. We really had fun visiting with Matt and Jess. They have grown into such impressive, interesting young adults.