Blogs from Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States, North America - page 3

On 8th July, we invited Linda, Aaron, Erin and Adam to dinner. This was an experiment as dinner parties freak Jon out. We decided to make burgers, chicken and a vegetarian option of stuffed peppers with Quorn for Linda, who had recently watched a documentary about meat which had put her off. It was a lovely evening, although people didnt eat enough and we still have leftovers over a week on! 13th July Today was my last day at work. I worked out that during my 3 months, I have written 28 grant applications worth $70,000 and helped us secure funding for 5 years with 350 schools across Colorado through the Kids For Wish Kids programme with my Prezi. Everyone was so sweet to me and Jake even bought me a mint choc chip ice cream ... read more

We had a lazy weekend. Got up late on Saturday but I was desperate to gt out and do something before the storms were due to hit at about 3pm so we got our bits together and the dogs 'baby bag' and headed out to the Juneteenth festival, which is a US wide festival which celebrates the end of slavery. In some state it is a public holiday but in Denver, it is a street festival in a drug fuelled area. It is predominantly black people celebrating black culture. There was live music, stands (mainly advertising charities), games for children and food stalls. I found it sad as it was obvious this was an underprivileged area as quite a few people had breathing tubes attached to their noses and looked malnourished. There wasnt a great deal ... read more

I have been quiet on the blog front as things had been ticking along nicely...until yesterday. Work has been good...dog is cute...and I was so looking forward to this weekend. It is Memorial weekend and everyone has Monday off work so we were trying to figure out what to do with this extra time!!! I suggested Vegas (12 hours on greyhound) or Utah (6 hours in car and then night in the desert) but with a pooch it wasnt fair to go that far, so I found 3 other options - Lake Pueblo National Park (2 hours away), Arapaho National Reserve and Grand Junction. We had decided on Lake Pueblo, where I wanted to do some hiking and canoeing. We would stay there overnight and go on to a dinosaur place and some other geeky place ... read more

Today was a good day, despite the mishaps... We were woken by a bead breathed puppy at 5.45am, let him onto our bed where he slept on my feet until 9am when he couldn't sit still anymore. Jon and I wanted to have some time to ourselves today so we decided to tire Churchill out with a walk around Washington Park,before heading off to do our own thing for a while. Washington Park rivals any London park - it is beautiful, as is the local area. Everyone in the state seemed to have congregated to walk their dogs too, which was a little problem as Churchy barks at anything with four legs. After a 45 min walk, we took Churchy back to the apartment, put him in his crate and left him whining while we headed ... read more