One week in!

Well, it's hard to believe that only a week ago we arrived; so many things have happened since then! But first things first.  Here are a few photos of our place and the space we're calling home for the next year

View from our kitchen window - Looking West.

View of where we're living for 2016: Creekside. Kitchen window is the upper left. Bathhouse is below left. Laundry below right. Balcony on right is another apartment.

Bathhouse entrance below, our porch/entrance above.

Our Living room.

One of the Quonset huts showing all the snow!

Dusk over the Lodge

Sky High View Cabin porch.  Just one of many amazing scenes here.

Looking East over Emmental with Pikes Peak in the background!  I love the blue skies out here!

  We're still adapting to camp life and changing schedules as different events affect when we need to be "on" and when we can have time off.  For example, we both had Wednesday off, Betty worked late tonight doing the kitchen dishes since there is a scrap-booking group here, and I work all weekend until Wednesday.  Next week starting on Friday, we'll be bursting at the seams since it is Junior High Snow Camp - not enough beds for everyone so turning people away. Time is flying by!

On our day off, we drove down to Colorado Springs to shop at REI for gaiters and "traction devices" (for our shoes), to explore the area (Old North End of Colorado Springs is amazing!), and to visit a ginormous thrift store (The Arc). When we returned to the camp, we put on our new items and went for a walk in the woods.  It was an amazing experience (a first ever for me) walking through the snow covered forest floor!  I love this place!

... here's Betty ready for our walk!

Wednesday was our day off.  We purchased gaiters and "traction devices" for our shoes. Then we went for a walk in the woods!  Here I am ready to go. And...

a dead tree in the woods: Spruce beetle infestation.  Saw several Downy Woodpeckers that were working on trees; leaving debris like this.

-Jonathan