Road trip!

Tonight I am writing 1,000 miles away from my typical location in our lovely new home. We are in Colorado Springs! We have been looking forward to this trip for so long... we knew that at the end of all of the busyness that came with moving into our new house, we'd get to go on vacation! Well, it's not technically a vacation since we are actually here for a worship conference, but that doesn't mean we haven't taken advantage of the beautiful sights around here. Here is a brief picture tour of our trip thus far:

This was yesterday morning at our hotel in Nebraska. It is the only picture we have from Nebraska seeing as there really wasn't anything more to do there. However, it was my first time in the state, so that was exciting! We decided to stay halfway in central Nebraska to break up our trip a bit. We drove about 7-8 hours on Friday and then 7 or so yesterday. It was nice to have a break halfway through.

That is the view right outside our hotel. It's pretty lovely walking out and looking at Pike's Peak!

This was at Estes Park. We drove there today (about two hours north of Colorado Springs). It was a lovely drive up through the mountains. We then saw these elk (I think?). They were roaming around on the golf course.

I went slightly off the main path to snap these photos of the elk... until I noticed one started getting up and heading toward me. We were slightly terrified and ran back to the sidewalk again.

Along our walk around Lake Estes... it kind of reminded us of Lake Tahoe. It was very beautiful!

...also along our walk. It was quite windy!

Well, I'll try and post more pictures tomorrow if we get a chance. We are planning on taking a tour of Focus on the Family and then go up to Pike's Peak. After that, we're going to have dinner with a college friend and then go to the first session of the conference. It's been a great trip so far!