a movie to miss

So here is a note on that movie Dead End Road that we watched on Halloween. The movie box said that it was"the best independent horror film of 2005." We came to realize as the night went on that there must have been very few independent horror movies put out in 2005. My friends, you can afford to miss this one. I owe you this information if we are close enough for you to be interested in what I am up to. May it serve you well.

Joseph and I recently went camping in the Rocky Mountain National Park for a couple of nights. Wow. I am completely in love with the fact that I can drive 2 hours and be in such a dramatically beautiful and moving place. Since it is late October, as we hiked and got higher in elevation we went from a few patches of slushy snow in the shade to knee deep snow when we got above tree line.

We didn't see much wildlife- I think because we camped in a canyon with a glacier capping the end. It was at about 10,500 ft. It was cold at night but not horrible, in the 20's, but during the day it got into the 50's and 60's depending on how high you were. We hiked up to an alpine lake, Glass Lake, above the trees over this rock field with huge boulders covered in snow that go up to meet a nearly vertical rock wall.

It was a good trip, but for now, two nights on the cold ground is enough for me. As we were hiking out and got closer to the trail head where people were casually day hiking, the fresh clean people would pass us and they all smelled sooo good- like shampoo, soap, flowers and coconut...Then I realized that it wasn't that they smelled strangely good, but that we stunk badly. Hhmm, yes we smelled and my hair was a rat's nest. When we got out of the park we went straight to a bbq restaurant in Estes Park where I got a giant chili cheese burger and a beer. I like Colorado.