Moving Right Along

Well, quite the shocker, things are just moving right along. Today's weight:

198.0! yay :) I'm really happy about that. No "regular" workouts last week but was going going going, and we did a big hike on Saturday. More photos to come in the future but since it takes me so long, here's a little preview:

Um yeah, do you see why I LOVE Colorado??

Other than that I've been "recovering" from my friend's visit... I have so much to catch up on. Doing a mountain of laundry today and picking up the house, have many errands to run, etc!! Hoping to get a good workout in too :) Will try to be back and update with more happenings ASAP!

Meyers Homestead Hike

May 14th, 2011... In an effort to just start hiking already, we went up to Boulder and did this 5 1/2 mile hike. We wanted summer to be here and wanted to start hiking... well unfortunately it was about 40 degrees, windy, foggy, rainy... pretty much awful. But we are proud to say we did it anyway!

I was freezing before we even got started :(

Do I look cold?

The homestead:

Very pretty trail!

Some handsome hiker I picked up along the way:

My hair was getting wet by this point from all the fog and mist:

The fog descends upon us:

Some pretty flowers we saw:

We hiked about 5 1/2 miles... we think we went a little farther than we were supposed to, oops! But we had a great time and we were proud of ourselves for doing the whole hike despite the uncooperative weather. Hopefully many more hikes ahead of us this summer & fall!

Hiking Fish Creek Falls

Continuing with our weekend in Steamboat Springs... on Saturday after the car show and a short nap, we decided to go hiking to Fish Creek Falls! Our friends told us it was a pretty easy hike and really awesome, so off we went.

We first went up on the Overlook Trail (green line) so we could look at the falls from up above. On the way back down we cut through on the Picnic Trail (dark blue) to meet up with the National Recreation Trail (pink) which then took us over to the falls. This was really such a fun and beautiful hike! Firstly here are some photos from the top.

We asked another couple to take our picture.... and hoped for the best. As we feared - waterfall in the head. Everyone who ever takes our photo has something coming out of one of our heads... or they miss the background entirely lol. Oh well at least we have some photos together :) This did prompt Ian to buy a bigger gorilla pod though so that we can hopefully set up some shots where we take our own photos together... as long as there is something around to set it on or attach it to! The couple did take a shot of us with the waterfall to the side, but the shadow on me (from Ian) was even worse and I couldn't edit it very well.

We took some of our own shots of each other and together up close :)

We continued our hike down to the base of the falls, enjoying beautiful scenery along the way. When we made it there, the view was just spectacular!!

We hung around the falls for quite a long time, taking tons of photos of the falls and of each other :) It was so cool and refreshing near the water too. Such a pleasant place to spend time.

We really enjoyed ourselves and it was nice to get out hiking and really enjoy Steamboat Springs. When we went in 2007 Ian was so busy with his club's registration booth that we didn't get to do very much exploring. Thank you to the Richardsons for telling us about this hike! And speaking of the Richardsons, we hiked again with them the next day! Pictures coming in the next installment!

Before we left, we got treated to a rainbow! Do you see it at the base of the falls? Ahhh... just beautiful.

Here's a video of the falls for you to enjoy. You can pretend you were there with us! :)

You can view the ENTIRE PHOTO ALBUM HERE.