I'm leaving...on a jet plane.

I'm back in the good ol' state of Wisconsin.

I went to Colorado to visit my sister. She is living in CO Springs, temporarily, for a internship. It's beautiful area. We had a great time :)

I arrived in CO on Friday, Oct 10th... We went to the Garden of the Gods and to Manitou Springs.

Garden of the Gods was absolutely breathtaking and should be visited by everyone at some point in their lives. The sun was about to set as we were there, so I got some pretty neat pics :)

Manitou Springs is an old hippie town. Definitely my type of atmosphere. My sister and I did some shopping, ate dinner at a mexican restaurant called Amanda's Fonda (fonda means "Inn" in spanish), and played some games. We gave the tickets we won to some young kids...we're nice like that.

On Saturday, we made a trip to Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek is about 1 hr away, so we didn't do anything else when we got back to CO Springs. It's a neat city and it has a lot of history. It was a gold mining town back in the 1800s. Now it's made into little shops and casinos..LOTS of casinos. So, we gambled...a lot. Also, Cripple Creek was having a fall festival when we were there, so we saw a few people dressed in 1800 attire...it was really cool.

On Sunday, we did some site seeing at Pike's Peak. The drive up to the top (well...almost top...it was too windy for us to go to the VERY top, so we made it to the 11,000 elevation before the trooper made us stop) was gorgeous. I have never been to CO in the fall, so it was neat to see all the mountains with fall colors vs snow.

Monday, my sister had to work, so I just stayed in and watched the marathon of America's Next Top Model. For lunch, I walked to Souper Salad for a salad to go. It was a nice relaxing day. We later had dinner at the Elephant Bar, which was EXCELLENT.

I miss my sister already though :(