Last week I had the opportunity to go to Loveland, Colorado for a training session. Loveland is an hour north of Denver, and really quite beautiful. Training was long and a little arduous, as there were 5 of us, with 2 trainers, and it felt like we spent all day every day together. Literally. We would start at 8 in the morning, go until noon, walk from the conference room to the private dining room to eat from 12-1, then training from 12-5. On top of that, we had dinners together on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. The people were nice, but that's just a lot of time with people!
Fortunately, on Wednesday night we had off, so I went to Golden, CO to go see my friend Holly. She moved there two years ago, so I haven't seen her since then. I used to work with her at West Group, and it was just really nice to catch up.
And another fortunate was that I got into Loveland early enough on Wednesday to change and go hiking for a bit. After the floods last month, we weren't able to be at our initially scheduled place, with views of the mountains and a river, so instead we saw the inside of the Embassy Suites all day every day, so was very grateful for the trail I found to walk around. I thought I was going to be foiled as I was driving to Rocky Mountain National Park and I realized that the road was closed, but I made a turn, and one more turn, and then just kept driving up, and up, and up. I was definitely not disappointed!
It's got mountains, it's got rivers, it's got sites to give you chills... (for anyone who knows the Cup song)
Snow! Brrr! But it was 65 and sunny all week, so not really cold.
Me, at the top of the mountain.
I loved the rocks that were there for some reason. I just kept thinking Max would love them. So I brought some home for him.
This is where I was. Could probably never find it again!
I just loved they way this guy looked. Totally a rancher in Colorado. I was listening to him talk, and apparently he was displaced in the flood. Not sure if he's staying at the hotel indefinitely, or what the scoop was.
Ok, even though we had to go out with the group at night, at least we had a nice ride!
And this was my rental car. If nothing else, Nolan was impressed!!
And that's that. Another week down... and I'm happy to be back home!
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