Wyoming-Colorado Trip

Hi! I've got the pictures from my Wyoming and Colorado trip, as you can see. We were there the first week of August. You can figure out which is which, but these are pictures of my good buddy John hanging out with us at Veedauwoo recreation area near Laramie; my beautiful sister and my two adorable nieces in my mom's kitchen; Lake Marie, one of the most beautiful places in the world; and a couple of mountain goats that we saw on Mt. Evans in Colorado. I was really pumped about seeing the goats. I've only ever seen them through binoculars before! They are remarkably cute animals. Other things that we saw? Fossil Butte National Monument, Grand Teton National Park, we floated down the North Platte River with my friend Eric, visited Lake John, Colorado to collect rocks, and explored the Cache Le Poudre Canyon, also in Colorado. We got back very tired, but having seen a great deal. Allen got altitude sickness on Mount Evans, so we'll know better than to only allow ourselves seven days to adjust. Next time we will try to spend at least 14 days at high altitude before we try to summit a 14er. My step-dad showed us beautiful slides of some of the mountains that he's climbed. Perhaps next time we'll go backpacking in the Wind River Mountains. Just as pretty as Colorado, less well known, and not quite so high!

Kitten

Hi everyone. I wasn't going to write my first entry until I got to Houston, but something newsworthy has happened. Yesterday I spent four hours trying to coax a tabby out of the hedge outside my apartment. She swindled me out of a whole package of tuna, but she wouldn't let me catch her! This morning I went to the tractor supply in Knightdale and got a humane squirrel trap. Bated with another pack of tuna and set under the hedge, the kitten was caught in about 20 minutes. She's very skinny, the poor thing, and she's got fleas and perhaps an eye infection. She's also very affectionate, cute, and has good house manners! She and I are going to see the vet tomorrow, to see what we can do to fix her up. My adult cat, Titan, doesn't seem to care for her. I'm keeping them apart, in case she's sick, anyway. We decided to call her Cory (short for Albacore). If Titan doesn't come around by the end of the week, we'll find a more hospitable home for her. If he does play nice, we are going to keep her; she's a complete treasure!