This picture was taken in Colorado. We had Buddy and Gretel with us on our trip. They are in lots of our pictures!

Scenic creek in Colorado

Gretel enjoying the mountains in Colorado

We toured the U.S. Olympic complex in Colorado Springs. We saw syncronized swimmers practicing.

Rafting the Arkansas River in Colorado, we never fell out!

Our lunch spot during the rafting trip

Can you find Polliann in the picture?

Floating along one of the class I areas

A big fire camp in Colorado for some of the fireman fighting one of the big western fires this summer

A bus to transport the firefighters

One of the many signs warning of the extreme fire danger

Signs were everywhere thanking the firefighters

Check out this snow machine!

Ouray, Colorado: cool town in the middle of the San Juan Mountains. It's known as the "Switzerland of America."

Near the center of the picture you can see the old gold and silver mining buildings

More mining buildings on the rugged mountain terrain

We thought Arches National Park was the coolest of all the parks we saw in Utah. Those wind-blown arches are huge!

This is Balanced Rock. I wouldn't want to be sitting there when it falls!

More scenery

Pretty interesting structure. Just sitting by itself in the middle of a plain.

See how small we are at the bottom of the arch!

This arch is in its early stage.

Polliann in front of another sandstone arch

This was such a cool place in the park. It's called Devil's Garden. Through the narrow pathway you can see behind me is a large area of deep, red desert sand: hence, its name!

It wasn't easy for us to get up there!