Thursday - July 25

We had 2 priorities today......laundry and grocery shopping!     Started with a great breakfast at the Brewerton Diner and then laundry.    Drove to Clay, NY and browsed at Barnes and Noble (got my 2020 calendar) and then shopped at Wegman's for food/water, etc.    On home to unload little by little as Mark isn't doing any lifting.    Thankful for the collapsible wagon we have to cart things back and forth from truck to boat.    We both took a nap after lunch.....still catching up from all the travel, although we've both been sleeping well at night.

Mark update.......feeling a little better each day but really sore.   Coughing, sneezing, bending over hurt like the dickens.    Hot showers feel so good and actually getting up and moving around in stores, etc., is better than just sitting.

Ranch update.....we enjoyed a hay rack ride, 2 dances, 2 hikes, and being serenaded by Will, the storyteller who sang us a special "love" song thru the years....

Ryan riding Mohawk

Grandma, Grandpa and the grandchildren  

Having fun on the hay rack ride with the littles 

Sleepy Maeve snuggling with Daddy 

 11 of us plus our guides, Jenna and Michaela climbed Charity Mountain (behind the lodge - went up 900') - just spectacular and elevation reached 10,000'+.    We had coffee and lemon poppyseed bread as the sun came up.    This was a 3-mile round trip and here's Davis, Pat, Mark and Ryan. 

 Michael and family....

Riding thru the Aspen Cathedral

White water rafting on the Rio Grande

Michael, Brady, Ryan, Anne

Drew, Liam, Connor, Patrick 

Philip, Annette, Mark

Davis, Brooke, Pat

Philip, Annette, Maeve, Luke

Uncle Ryan giving Maeve a little ride in the lodge 

Little Buckaroos 

Liam fly fishing - he and his Dad were only ones who caught something!

More coming tomorrow....

Happy hour with our neighbors, Jane and George tonight and met a couple who just came in from Milwaukee.    Also Mike who is ready to start boating and doing the loop (by himself)!!! ??