big weekend

so this one was a doozy.... (gosh i miss fraggle rock. sorry but just saying doozy reminded me of the dozers which were the little builder guys that were always building. but i digress)
So, this weekend, yeah.. it was a hot one, and jeff had a tone of stuff to do, so I went along.. Saturday we get up and read the paper and make a plan, which we pretty much stuck to, to a degree.
First on Saturday we went to the Arapahoe County Fair.. and that means, fair rides, cotton candy, far animals and everything. We got there and the first thing on the list was dock dogs. When i asked jeff about it, when we were talking at home, he said that you had to register your dog before the fair and that Watson was not able to compete (dock dogs is where the dog jumps off the end of a dock to get a ball or whatever, and they record the dogs jumping distance.. well gyzoa is the dog that can jump off a dock, she used to have people stop and watch her when we lived in Michigan on the water. but she eats other dogs, so she wouldn't get the chance to jump, but watson is nice to other dogs, and he knows how to go off a pier, so i was sad when they said any one coulr enter when we got there.. There was a $3,000 prize for the dog that jumped the farthest, but i know watson's bad hips would not let him jump so much. but that's ok, they had a award for the smalled jump to.. watson surely could have done that.. but oh well. so we saw some dock dogs, saw some mutton busting. still don't understand what parents are thinking when every kid comes out crying, but anyway.. then we walked around for jeff to take some photos. He wanted to go on the farris wheel to get some aerial shots so of course i had to go with him. At the time, i thought i would be ok.. yeah... no. not a fan of rides anymore, that scared the shit out of me, and i was tense the rest of the day... but, then we went and saw some cows, chicken, a huge turkey that was pissed off and some model trains.
After that we checked out a hypnotist. that was really cool, almost my favorite part.
he had a group of people thinking they were in a Marioachi band, too funny..
then the best part of the day... FUNNEL CAKE!!! we found some AC in the hospitality room (perk of coming with the media and a sponcer company) and ate most of the funnel cake. By this time it was almost 3 and we headed home, to the HOT house. We were there for about an hour and then headed back out into the 90+ degree heat to the Greenwood village days. This was a small town fair in the town the Jeff's newspaper covers. so he had to go take pictures of the mayor and council at the fair and stuff. So I tagged a long. It was really done well for the community. The theme was "Blast off" and they had the place decorated with alien and marsian cut outs and planets and stuff. It was all free and so many things for the kids to do. there were canvases for painting, cut outs of alien heads and planets for kids to paint. they had a hand casting tent, i think i saw that over 700 kids and adults got their hands casted.. lots of crafts for the kids. Chick-fil-a was giving away meals, and they had ben and jerry ice cream too. all free.. Snow cones, and rides too, all free. when the sun went down they started giving out cotton candy and then there were going to be fire works. By this time, we were both so pooped we for-went the fire works and headed home.
Sunday we got up early, showered and started driving up. we didn't want to sit at home with it being so hot again, and the ac still down, that we went up top to see a friend and go for a hike. It was only about 4 miles round trip, but it was UP and i had some trouble breathing. it had been so long since jeff and I had done something like that that i think we were out of shape for it. But i forget i have asthma until i try to do something like that with out my inhaler.. not a great idea. needless to say i stopped a lot on the way up. but it was nice when we got there. it was full of mosquitoes though, so we didn't stay all that long at the lakes.. Watson went swimming and was really happy about that.. he did great on the hike. better than i did. that's for sure. But it reminded me that i have to get back into doing something physical. I am getting lazy and feeling pudgy again.. not good.. so i am wearing my pedometer today to see how i am doing. not too good so far, i can tell you that.

When i get home this afternoon and waiting for the AC guy to come, i will upload all my photos from this weekend and share.. jeff has some good ones of me. I will get them too and show you.. one i am standing on an ice field that is melted though, so it is basically a snow bridge.. anyway, i'll show you.