Well... We're Here.

So, as you all know we have now moved to Denver, Colorado. Jacquelyn took a job with a company called ProDPI and they hired me on as a temp for the busy Christmas season. In following Kristin's blog, I thought it might be a good idea to start one of our own. This way you can follow up with us from a distance and still take part in what we are doing.

So we left Mom and Father's house at 4AM on Wednesday with our car loaded up with as much as we could fit into it. Since we had to be at work at 10AM on Thursday we got a hotel room for really cheap (smelled like pot) and stayed there for two nights. Wednesday night it snowed about half a foot and we woke up to this.

Not too bad but it continued to snow throughout the day.

Work was fine and the company we are working for is nice and relaxed. Jacquelyn is stretching canvases and I am just doing whatever they tell me, which mostly involves running around the building with pictures in my hands for shipping, cutting, or catching them as they are printed. More fun/stress than it sounds.

The weekend was a great time. Our original plan was to look for housing and apartments all day, but the first place we went to was too good to pass up. We put in our application and feeling rather confident decided to see what my good friend Dane was up too for the day. Dane lives in Golden, CO which is about 20 minutes away from where our new place is going to be. These are some photos of the area around Golden as we tried to find Dane's house.

Dane showed us the bike shop where he works in downtown which was awesome. Only high class/dollar mountain bikes. NOTHING ELSE. I must get a job there. Downtown Golden is small and a little touristy, but we ate at a nice bar and pizza joint that had snowboard paraphernalia everywhere. Awesome to say the least. The Coors Brewing Co is also in Golden. It just looks like a huge factory that is ugly, but here is the clear river that Coors made famous. Dane says that above the factory it is a clear river, below it is filled with silt, sludge, and smells like sulfur.

After food and a few brews was a 3 hour hike up Apex Mountain. The trails we walked were bike and hike trails which I can't wait to get in shape to ride. The thought of climbing that much makes my lungs burn already. Up this high we could see Denver in the distance clearly. The grey for that blocks the clarity of seeing the city is due to all of the smog it produces. We breathe this.

Here is Dane and his dog Lucy. 

Lucy never stopped running. She would run herself to death.

As the sun started to go down we ran into about a foot of snow that had to be marched through. Father, thank you for giving me those boots. They were very warm. On the descent we could really see the city lights. Much fun for trying to pick out Dane's house.

 The bright little thing in the distance is the football stadium. GO BRONCOS!!!

 We went back to Dane's house where he made us an amazing dinner. Then we went back to Neesa's apartment where we have been staying. Neesa and Miles were kind enough to tell us not so spend our money on a hotel room and stay in their apartment. It has been a lot of fun and they are been very generous. The first night we all went out to Denver's First Fridays where we met some of Neesa's friends and saw some art.

So now we are staying around 7th and Corona in Denver Capitol Hill area and enjoying the city. We walk to the grocery store down the street and hang around waiting to move into our new apartment over by Green Mountain Park in Lakewood.

Here is us coming home from the famous 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. It was snowing so even the city has a lot of accumulation.

A bush as it should be in winter.

Me blogging in Neesa and Miles' apartment. *Jenny did the painting on the wall.