So, while most of you were probably partying your a$$es off on July 4th, I was home cleaning.  Not only was I cleaning, but I wanted to clean.  Not because I'm a neat freak like Monica Gellar, but because I had something exciting to clean.  My boyfriend and I now have our house all to ourselves....and our two dogs.  We once had 4 people living there.  Let me tell you how small our house felt.  It felt like I lived in my old just-out-of-college-on-my-own apartment, which was also a studio.  Cramped, no storage, barely legal to be a residence.  But I digress....  I had such a great day just setting up our guest room.  Putting the furniture where I thought it looked best and not worrying about what I might step on while I was in the room.  After some fresh paint and a good steam-cleaning, it was like a guy never lived there!  Now the bathroom was another story.  I wouldn't even go in there without some industrial rubber gloves.  But that too is now acceptable, and even "cute" with it's new shower curtain, clean towels, and fresh scented candles!  We are now equiped to entertain over night guests, but let me be clear.  We have a max  stay for any "guests" of 3 nights, after that, you're on your own! 

Nothing says summer like some nice camping.  Roasting marshmallows, drinking beer, hiking, trying to fit two people and two dogs on an air mattress-it's great.   However, when you head up "to the mountains" you never really expect it to be cold in June.  Well, lets just say you should give Grand County some time before you head up there in the hopes to camp.  Last week, we loaded up the car with all the goods, and the dogs to  head out for 3 or 4 days of nature.  Needless to say, I didn't pack appropriately.  I had to buy some fleece pants, thank god they were having sales!  We camped one night on our way up, it was great.  But, once we got close to Winter Park, we were welcomed with some rain, and eventually, some blowing snow.  Yep, it was snowing.  By no means a blizzard, but there were no questions as to whether it was really snow.  We ended up staying in a hotel, and due to some food poisening, we decided it was a good idea to head home the next morning. It turned out to be a bummer, we didn't even get to eat at Hernando's!