Believe it or not, I am back a day early from my Colorado adventure. I loved it out there, but Tiffy was having a lot of problems with the altitude, so we decided to descend. Estes Park is at almost 8000 feet, and Tiffy was always out of breath, had a headache, and felt slightly nauseated. We did get to hike in Rocky Mountain National Park and attend the Scandinavian Festival in downtown Estes Park in the short time we were there. The fires were also freaking us out a little; one day we had dinner with a friend of the Shack-Toe's owners, and the next day there was a fire right where her house was! We found out the day after that her house was spared, but the fire had been just a block away. Twenty-one houses burned down in the fire. The wind smelled like smoke, and ash rained down on us all the way out at the Shack-Toe, so that was a bit unnerving.
Here are some photos from our hike in Rocky Mountain National Forest.
Here are some wildflowers we saw. The first one is called Yellow Banner but I don't know what the other two are.
And here are some photos from the Estes Park Scandinavian Festival.
And here are a couple of brief movies from the Festival, of a wood-chopping dance and a dance with several couples, including two very little children.
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So can you get us a gig at the Scandi festival. That would be a nice trip for a gig!
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