The last few days

First off, a few pictures from the first day of vacation all bunched together at the beginning, then the rest will go in order with my post.
Odin, scared out of his mind for the first few hours of the journey. All he did was stare at us, then yowl any time we made eye contact.

Aaron, trucking along, during the first leg of our trip, before we made it out of Minnesota.

I'm a sucker for clouds.

Before leaving Aaron's parents' house, we headed to the car wash.



After breakfast, we drove to Gillette to meet up with my parents, my Aunt Sharon, and Grandma. The first night there, we had barbecue ribs, and Aaron showed my dad all kinds of beers from the Surly Brewing Company, a brewery across the street from where we live. We spent most of the day lounging on the back deck, as it was the perfect weather outside for doing so. I discovered a feature on my camera that lets me focus on one color of my choosing, and grays out the rest of the colors, so I spent a lot of time messing with that.





Sunday, Aaron and I went to lunch with Amy, who told us all about her summer job as a dirt truck driver in a coal mine. The tired on one of those trucks barely fits on a semi-truck flat bed. Pretty cool stuff, I would definitely like to do that some day. Then we saw Get Smart at the movies, and then went to Las Margaritas for dinner, a family favorite.

Aaron left for Spearfish Monday morning, and Mom, Grandma, Aunt Sharon, and I left for Laramie to visit Ashley, as she wasn't able to make it up for a visit with her school schedule. Mom and Grandma were in one car, and Aunt Sharon and I were in her rental car. It was pretty fancy, with push-button ignition, which was hard to get used to. It was nice to catch up with Aunt Sharon, as she always has lots to say about the family back down south, and new things that are going on with her. I hadn't seen her or Grandma since May of '05 when we went down to visit Grandma in Mississippi.

We had time to eat at The Library, a cool local place that has its own brewery. Aaron would have enjoyed that, but he had a lot of things to get done at his folks' house that would have bored me to tears. Then we visited Ashley's apartment, because I had never seen it before. Grandma and Aunt Sharon weren't going to have time to see it because they had to go down to Denver to get checked in to their hotel for the night, so I took plenty of pictures of that. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to get them from my camera to my computer right now, so that will have to wait.

Mom and I spent the night in Laramie, and will head back to Gillette this afternoon. Then Mom's going to drop me off in Spearfish, and I'll spend the rest of the week over there.

Until the next update!