Denver, Colorado

For spring break this year, we went to Palo Duro for a day, and Denver for three days. Palo Duro was a lot of fun, the usual picnic, hike, and playing in the river.

On Thursday, we left for Denver. We arrived in time to check into our hotel and then go to see BYU play Wofford for the first round of March Madness (the whole reason we came to Denver.) There were a TON of people there.

The people waiting to go up the escalator. 

Part of the line outside.

BYU did not play the greatest, but they still pulled through with a 74-66 win.

The next day we drove down to Colorado Springs. We started out the day by touring a cave there called Cave of the Winds.

It was a pretty fun tour, though it was sometimes a little tight. There was one passage which they called "Tall man's headache, Fat man's misery." They're only advice to this passage was, "Suck, tuck, and duck, and with any luck, you won't get stuck." The passage was incredibly small, but also very short, so we weren't sucking, tucking, and ducking for very long. After the cave, we went to take a quick look at Garden of the Gods, which isn't actually a garden, just a lot of rocks, but they were fun to climb.

Next, we went to Seven Falls, which is 7 waterfalls, but it only looks like 6, they count this little flip at the end as a waterfall.

It was a pretty sight, but the stairs next to it that you normally climb were closed because they had ice on them, so we just rode the elevator to the top and enjoyed the view. After Seven Falls, we went to lunch, and then to tour the Olympic training center in Denver.

The tour was really cool, we even got to see a few potential Olympians actually training. There was also a little hall of fame where there was a bobsled you could get in.

 There was a really cool, HUGE statue out front.

That was the end of our day in Colorado Springs; we were going to go to this "Focus on Family" place that looked pretty fun, but it was closed because the Duggars from the show 19 Kids and Counting were taking a vacation there. We all decided that we don't like the Duggars anymore. So we went back to Denver and got DELICIOUS cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory. I had an amazing time in Colorado Springs. Saturday was the day of the game, so we spent the morning in the beautiful city of Denver. First we went to the aquarium there and Tyson, Justin, and I got to snorkel in this big Under the Sea exhibit. I had my doubts about it at first, but I had a really good time.

After checking out the rest of the aquarium, we went on a tour of this old fashioned candy factory called Hammond's. It was neat to see how they made all the different hard candy, and the samples were delicious.

Then it was time for the BYU game. This time BYU was playing Gonzaga. The cougars played so good! It was really fun to watch the game, and despite some doubts (mainly on my part- Gonzaga is a tall team,) BYU won 89-67! They are going to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in a LOT of years! I had an amazing time in Denver and am very glad that I had the opportunity to go!

I'm Selfish!

Yesterday on the way to church, my mom was trying to teach Abigail what selfish was and why it's important that we're not selfish. None of us thought that the lesson really got through to her, but today she proved us wrong. Abigail was playing with Ryan and Addison today and she came up to me with her hair sopping wet, literally dripping water. She asked me if she could sit on my bed while Addison gave her a hairdo. I told her that she couldn't while her hair was so wet because I didn't want to have to sleep in a wet bed tonight. As she walked away, I heard her tell Addison, "She said no because she is selfish!" I guess that I needed that lesson on not being selfish!

Doubles Tournament!

Last weekend I competed in a doubles tournament with a new partner, Jessica. We are still getting used to each others playing styles, add to that the fact that it was 34 degrees, around 8:30 in the morning, and out first time competing in A division, and I think it's safe to say that we probably weren't playing our best. This was proven by the fact that we lost our first match 8-0. This was pretty discouraging, but it put us in the consolation bracket where we won our next match 8-0. We then proceeded to win 8-1, then 8-2, and then in the (consolation) finals, we won 8-3. It was pretty exciting to win consolation since it was our first tournament together. I think that we will be able to do better next time, once we are more used to playing together. I am sad that I am not playing with Alex anymore (we won the B division doubles tournament last season,) but I'm am excited about getting to play some more with Jessica!