Sunday, June 24, 2012

Burning Up

Summer has arrived. I know because my ugly chaco tan is reappearing. I also know because it's been over 100 degrees everyday for the past 2 weeks. Drew's parents came to visit for Father's day and after spending a few days in our "dry heat" they were happy to go home to Florida where it's only 86 degrees.

This weekend was a prototypical Boulder summer weekend. We went climbing in St. Vrain Canyon Friday night after work. Saturday we hiked up to South Arapahoe with Steve and Caroline. Drew was the only one of use that was brave enough to do the traverse, you can see why from his video.


Sunday we rode our bikes down to the Boulder creek to cool off. It was quite the party down at the river complete with people dressed up in pirate costumes floating in inner tubes and drunken college kids playing floating beer pong.

Unfortunately this summer has been very dry and we've already had several wildfires. There is one burning in the foothills of Ft. Collins that has destroyed 250 homes and is only 45 percent contained. I think we're going to have a government-mandated statewide rain dance soon.

On a happier note, our 4th wedding anniversary is this Thursday and we're celebrating by going to see the Avett Brothers at Red Rocks!

Drew's fun fact: The High Park fire that is currently burning near Ft. Collins is the most destructive fire in Colorado's history, and the second largest by acreage.