Summer is basically over.

Yes. Summer is over, but before I go into that, I want to wrap up the story from my last post.

So when I last left you, We were waiting for the insurance company to get back to us. Well, they did get back to us, but they were offering us an amount which we did not think was fair market value. This prompted several calls back and forth mostly going nowhere. They eventually did bring their offer up when we brought the insurance commissioner's office in, but by then we had placed the claim with our own insurance company. Our insurance company worked much faster and offered us a reasonable amount the first time around, so we ended up finishing the claim with them and letting them go after the other insurance company.

OK, now that I have filled you in on that I can move on to more exciting topics. Of course these 'more exciting topics' are not really that exciting, but they are more exciting than the previous news... Last week I did two things. The first was go on a hike with the Gray family, Brittany and Abby. We went up the Old Bridle trail to the Greenleaf hut then onwards to Mt. Lafayette. Then we traveled acroos the 'knife edge' over Mt. Lincoln and Haystack then down the Falling Waters trail. We got a late start and finished late, but it was a lot of fun regardless. Since a picture is wortyh a thousand words I we let the photos do the rest of the talking (ask me for password via email/IM/phone whatever). the other fun thing I did last week was go to a drive-in. Basically the back-story is that Abby had never been to a drive-in and read about our drive-in event earlier this summer and asked me to help coordinate going to the drive-in while she was visiting. So we invited a bunch of people got everything planned, only to find out that the drive-in changed its movies and nobody wanted to see what they were showing. Not to be stopped, I decided to convert my backyard into a drive-in of sorts. I called the invited and let them know I was thinking about chaning the plans. When they heard about the idea, most of them were pretty excited about the homegrown drive-in. We got everybody together and had a grand time experiencing the drive-in with all the comforts of home. Score one for me!