Back from Vacation

We finally returned to Boulder from a long trip across the country to Missouri and Louisisana. Now we know what is in between!

The weather was very good most of the way. In fact, it was hot if anything. I thought the car thermometer must have been broken because it constantly read 74 F.
Things changed as we left Lamar, CO, and headed to Denver. Within an hour the temperature dropped from 55 to 45, and kept going down. There were hundreds of tumbleweeds running across the prarie, and the wind shook the car as we drove. On getting to the outskirts of Denver, the sun went down, and it began to snow, making for a scary drive the rest of the way home. The temperature finally bottomed out at 28F!

Sean of course had to pee, after the cold, but before the snow. He peed his pants just as we arrived at a rest stop with bathrooms. We were all dressed for the warm weather of the south, so the dash to the bathroom in the wind was particularly chilly!

We awoke to a few inches of snow on the ground.