Colorado

Hello all,

(Long blog post so if your reading this before work or school save it until your at work or when your home from school)!

This morning we awoke by the pool, which straight away brings me on to last night! After voting not to erect tents and to break into the pool we did exactly that. Gathering all the nights equipment we headed as a group down to the pool. We had planned this when we were swimming earlier so had cunningly placed a chair outside the pool wall. Ollie offered to hop over first to collect all the bags mats etc that we threw over. A couple of us then hopped over and went into the poolhouse. The manager of the camp site then turned up, we thought we were busted however he was just locking up the television room and Laura and me were evicted because we were pretending to do a puzzle! After he had left we climbed over and set up camp. We were warm dry and bug free not to mention on a lovely wooden floor which was a lovely change from desert sand! 

Morning came and we had slept brilliantly, best nights sleep since the hotel, the mornings procedure was the reverse of the night before. Breakfast done we were packed and on the road to Santa Fe which turned out to be the most interesting and the most boring place in the world depending on your view of art. There were many galleries and that was about it, it was a strange town it looked like we were in Spain the houses were very much like you would see in Spain or turkey. Laura's input for this blog was "the church looked churchy". we were used to seeing churches that look like warehouses but this looked like a proper church! 

We then walked up the road to see the oldest building in Santa Fe we took photos and posed in front of it with the group. Only to realise that this house was actually an estate agents and the house was next door 😔 I think it dated back to the 1600's either way it looked very similar to the office next door! We then split up as some wanted to do art galleries and others wanted to visit other places of interest. We however are British tourists and have little interest of these so we walked around aimlessly with a couple of others to waste the 2 hours we had to spare. We had a chat with a lovely man about his rather lovely Audi R8 which had broken down, I tried to help mend it but it turned out to be a dodgy battery and put the electronics on lockdown. So I left him to it. Time wasted and we were back on the bus down to our camp site in Colorado. Again we were at 39degrees so very hot, 5 hours I think it was today, which would have been ok but everyone seems to be ill. Some of the group feel absolutely fine some are sick some have an interactive backside and some just feel rubbish. Laura is the headache and I'm just rubbish. But hopefully it's just a 24 hour thing, probably the result of swimming in the river...

Eventually we arrived at our campsite and Nicky Ollie and myself cooked dinner as many of the group just went to have a lay down in the tents. Our driver Alex had a sleep in the bus. Tonight was a pesto pasta with garlic bread (plain pasta for the fussy ones) it went down a treat and was all eaten! Tonight we have put up tents as a BIG storm is heading in, we can see in the distance black clouds and fork lightening so have anchored down well expecting he worst. It's to be expected considering how humid it is here. Anyway I'm falling asleep writing this so ill attach a photo or 2 and wrap myself in the mosquito net, yes they are back.... Night night (Laura is already asleep bless her) love to you all miss you lots xxxxx

This is the view from our tent it's incredible, if you look closely on the left you can see the storm rolling in. 

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