Colorado Bound!!!

Well...for those of you that do not know, Matt and I have moved out to Winter Park, Colorado for 6 months. We are working at the Winter Park mountain resort in the Guest Services department. We will be working together and we will be getting to ski for free!!! We are living in a sweet house that has an amazing view of the Continental Divide and you can look at it from our hot tub that is on the deck!! I am going to try to do better than I did when we are in Belgrade. I hope to keep everyone updated at least weekly if not daily. I have included a picture of the house that we are living in and the view that it has from the deck.

We actually arrived last night around midnight. However, even with a drive just to Colorado...we still have a story to tell. We left around 8:30 a.m. We had to take it slow because the truck that was loaned to us was pulling a trailer that was full of our stuff. So we were driving around 60 mph. I don't know if you have ever driven 60 through Kansas....but it makes it even more boring! We had Mike and Mary Bartram driving our Alero. We stopped at Denver for dinner to make sure the truck cooled off before we headed into the mountain. As we got off of I-70, to head to the pass, we noticed that cars were honking and flashing their lights at us. We had no idea why until we looked behind us and we saw smoke rolling out of the back of the truck covering the whole road! Then the truck started slowing down and we started losing gears. We were down to one gear...going about 15 mph. We pulled off at a bar's parking lot, called the Gold Dust in Empire, CO about an hour away from Winter Park. The truck was finished. Matt got out and saw that there was transmission fluid everywhere. It seemed that the transmission had blown a gasket or broke a seal. We called Mike and Mary and they came back to get us (they were only a few min. ahead of us). We really had no choice but to leave the truck and the trailer at the bar parking lot over night and get it figured out in the morning. Now the funny thing is that we had boxes and our mattresses in the bed of the truck. This means that anyone could have come and taken them very easily. Mike went and talked to the cop (they have one cop) to tell him what was going on. He told Mike, "I won't bother it." Mike smiled and replied, "I wasn't worried about you, it was the rest of the town." So we put all of the things in the car, into the cab of the truck, and took off for Winter Park. As Matt and I were laying in bed, he asked, "So what lesson do you think God is trying to teach us this time?" I tell you what....one day I really thing Matt and I are going to be able to write a book about our life.

To end the story, we got to meet our neighbor, Stan. He is an owner of a bank and a super nice guy. We explained the situation and he let us use his truck to go and get our stuff. We are going to have him and his wife up for dinner. Luckily, our stuff was still there and the owners of the bar were okay with us leaving the truck there until it could get towed. We called Steve, the owner of the truck, and luckily the transmission was still under warrenty. So we have gotten our stuff into the house and will start unpacking tomorrow after training.

I hope you have enjoyed our story. I am sure there is more to come!

We miss everyone and hope you will keep in touch either through email, this blog or phone. I guess you could use snail mail too! When we get our P.O. box, we'll get you our address.