Vacation!

The Montoya men have been making an annual trip to Las Vegas together for about the past five years.  I joined them in 2011 and tagged along again this year.  We left in the evening from Denver on the 10th.   This year we stayed at Excalibur.  We walked up and down the strip, stopped in different places to play a few slots (pops and Scot played the table games) and my favorite, shopping!  Scot, Adam and I went and saw the show Jubilee! one evening too.  As usual it was a good time.  We flew home early on the 13th.  Adam and I spent the day being lazy in an effort to recuperate for the rest of the week!

 

On Thursday morning I went to pick up Emily S.G. from her friend Allison's house here in Colorado Springs.  We spent the day busy running errands and preparing to leave for Buena Vista, CO on Friday morning for Snowball 2013!  We got to meet up with Joe, Henry and Sophie for dinner at the Hogan.  Erin and Jesse arrived at the Colorado Springs airport on Thursday night and even later on Thursday night/Friday morning Amanda, Brandt and Joel flew into Denver and drove to Colorado Springs to sleep at our house.
Friday morning we hit up neighborhood favorite spot The North End Diner for breakfast with the group.  Nathan was also able to join us there.  After that we loaded the truck and took off for the cabin.  We gathered at the cabin with many college friends for Snowball 2013.  Snowball is a tradition that began when Joel and Emily were living in Kansas City and hosted a winter formal.  They had a few Snowballs at their house and the last was in Woodland Park, CO in 2008, hosted by Jay and Emily.  This year twenty of us gathered and had a fun weekend eating, hiking, going to the hot springs, skyping with missing persons Rachel and Shawn and Snowballing!