Life on the High Plains

Irv and I spent the night in Denver with the King and Queen -- George Strait and Reba!!  They are two of my favorite country singers so having the two of them together was a dream concert.  Lee Ann Womack started the evening, Reba then came out for a little over two hours, then George came out for another couple hours.  The concert started at 7:00 and finished at 11:45.  We definitely received a great show and I could have listened to them all night. Reba is a little spitfire.  Such a big voice packaged in such a petite body.  For me, she was the highlight of the concert.  Such personality and energy. We had fairly good seats--first level of the Pepsi Center and right above the tunnel where they entered the arena. George came out with his Ace in the Hole Band.  It was the first time I realized that they're all getting kind of old.  (It's a good thing that I'm not aging at the same rate they are :) George was fantastic and sang al...

The weather forecast last night said we were going to have flurries.  Imagine my surprise when I went out to feed the horses at 5:45 a.m. and this is what I saw. Flurries?  Really? This is the biggest snowfall that we've had all year--about 4-5 inches. The best thing about spring snow-- it's heavy and wet, and it's gone by the time I come home from work. As long as we don't have spring snow on May 21st, Jillian's wedding day, I'll be a happy camper. Only 52 days to go.

How cute! Even more cute! I had fun with my new lense at the San Diego Zoo. We not only enjoyed all the animals, we enjoyed all the flowers too.  Everything is still brown in Colorado so it was a treat to see all the colors. We're off to spend our last day at Disney today.  Hopefully we can convince Mr. Beans to ride Magic Mountain.  Tomorrow we have to go home. :(  I'm sad.

I thought we were going to Lego Land yesterday, but instead we ended up in San Francisco. Las Vegas New York We even made a stop at the Hollywood Bowl Mr. Beans got a chance to take a driving test and earn his driver's license.  This is a kid's driving course where they are supposed to obey the traffic signals and stay on the proper side of the road.  Mr. Beans did really good, some of the kids just drove aimlessly around. Mr. Beans and pappy had to stop and take a rest...wait a minute, that's not pappy There's pappy.  Grammy and pappy are starting to get a little worn down, but Mr. Beans said his feet and legs started hurting today also so we aren't feeling quite so old.  Maybe a day off tomorrow, especially since the rains have come back. Mr. Beans got to program a robot at Mind Storm.  Thanks to his uncle we knew to sign up for this activity as soon as we arrived at the park.  It was fun ...

Irv has agreed to start digging when we get back home so that I can have some of these. And a couple of these. A trained cat.  (Who knew it was possible to train a cat?) A Shamu of my own. Not an Atlantis though because they tend to make little grandsons very upset.  It's not his fault that he inherited the non-thrill gene from my side of the family. Of course I must have a polar bear. And lots of these little guys. I'll even take some of these birds. I now know what I want to be when I grow up...a marine biologist.  We had a beautiful day in San Diego at Sea World.  We figured out how to make it stop raining...go to Target and buy rain gear.  It makes the rain stop immediately.

Day 1 of the grand tour - Disneyland.  We ran into Mickey right away which was a nice surprise.  By the way, Mary and Dana, I made Mr. Beans sit through the Lincoln speech.  Remember how much you used to hate that? Had a great time for about 4 hours.  No lines, not too many people, but then the skys opened up.  It was cold and rainy, and I mean very rainy. We decided to leave and go check into the timeshare which is right on the beach.  Unfortunately, I forgot my surf board. Mr. Beans wants to know what we'll do if there's a tsunami.  I told him we didn't have to worry about that.  The directory in the timeshare only has emergency procedures for earthquakes and nuclear disasters.  (not kidding) We're looking for an indoor activity for tomorrow. Southern California in March...not such a good idea.   This is my second trip to "sunny" California in the last few years and both times it was cold...

The grand tour is finally here, or as Mr. Beans calls it "the man trip with one non-man".  We got up early to drive to the Denver airport. Mr. Beans still hasn't figured out where we're going.