Friday Sept 11 (a day we all remember)

"MANDY AGAIN" I hear you say - well sorry (there is a sign in a Durrango shop which would make for a perfect response to any comments like that - and we girls like to use for each other when there is a little bit of whinging going on.)

Anyway I will get to what we have done today. Early start for everyone this morning - Angela was up at 0500hrs and the rest of us weren't too far behind getting up between 0530 and 0550. It was a cold morning - recording under 0 degrees Celsius.

We left Gunnison at about 0700hrs and after quite a few photo stops on the way we arrived in Glenwood Springs at about 1030hrs. On arriving at Glenwood Springs we had the great fortune to go white water rafting - which was sooooo much fun. Of course a couple of us - played hard at the rafting and suffered nearly deadly injuries (joking - I had a fingernail bend back quite a way and it was bleeding for the rest of the trip and Angela hit the deck on the rocks before getting in the boat - slippery shoes. But battle wounds always make you look tougher than the rest - of course that is after the event).

After rafting we all experienced hypothermia whilst sitting in our wet clothes having lunch -because all our 'after rafting warm clothes that we had set aside' - had been dropped off at our host houses so we had nothing to change into - (Steve you had to know we couldn't do todays blog without mentioning that!)

After lunch we went our separate ways - Angela did a vocational visit, Emma and Michael went off for a tour of some caves and I didn't do too much but relax. At 5pm Angela and I took the tram (gondola) up to Glenwood Caverns - adventure park. We went on some cool rides up there (a roller coaster type thing and a swing thing that you get strapped into and then you go back and forward over a canyon (this was definitely worse than the roller coaster thing.)

It was the opening of the District Conference at this location so we caught up with a lot of people we have stayed with or met on our travels, and we also participated in the flag ceremony.

Anyway we have a busy day tomorrow and I am sure you have heard more than enough from me it the last week (I think I have done about 4-5 posts on this current page which is just over 1 weeks worth of blogs). So it is Mandy signing off for at LEAST 4 more days.