Those who love, visit.

We moved at the end of February and wondered if we would be stranded up here with no family or friends who were willing to travel the miles to visit our new Northwest home. THANK GOODNESS you have all taken us at face value and actually started booking your trips :) We feel loved and I should also mention that we are having quite a bit of fun getting to know our area better as a result of the recent visitations. Keep 'em coming! Room and board is very reasonable.

Our list of visitors past, present and future:

• Cousin Wesley and his girlfriend, Melanie


• Paul Hutzler


• Mike's parents (presently with us)


• My parents (coming in August)


• UP FOR GRABS!

Congratulations to Alex and Jamie on their recent move to Colorado Springs. You better believe we will be swapping fun visits soon! Grab some skis and get ready.

The Maps

Here's one for Mike...

Mike and I joke because he has a rather interesting and cute obsession with maps. I find him sitting on the couch often studying the inlets, inroads, in-and-outs of any map he can het his hands on. The result? Well, I know one thing. We can lead you anywhere you want to go when you get here. Heck, want directions on your visitation route? Mike could provide those as well.

I shouldn't joke. He is the one that helps get me out of my sticky driving situations when I am lost in the back roads of my own neighborhood. I'm the gal who drives an hour out of the way on a "hunch" that I might be headed in the right direction, only to find that I'm not at all. I would also argue however that it is good to get lost a little every now and again.

Since a week after we arrived Mike has had the entire Northwest figured out for what it is topographically. Yes, he's an engineer and not a maker of maps. Thank goodness for those with photographic memory and a good sense of direction. As for the others of us...we must fend for ourselves, stuck in the quagmire of north-south-east-west-ness!