Aspen, CO

Ok so yesterday we just drove all day. We began at about 7:20, and drove straight until we got to Rach and Sarah's (a bit outside of the town Aspen) around 11 or so. We admittedly made even better time than we had though, as the iphone had originally predicted our arrival around 12:30/1AM!  We stopped several times for gas and breaks, and we had to get fast food for the first time as well, because when we wanted lunch we were in some random casino area- we tried a casino buffet first but it was about to close, so we ended up going to Arby's. 

We are almost finished with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, book 5, and as we were driving up in the mountains late last night it was getting really intense. I was trying not to cry because I was driving...  :)

Anyway, rach and sarah have an awesome place here, its like a glorified ski resort. When we got here, they told us that there was a meteor shower going on! So we bundled up (seriously, it was SO cold it felt like november!) and drove up to a little trail entrance where we could park and lie on some blankets. It was so unbelievably clear, I tried to count the stars but I didn't get very far. Eric had never seen a meteor shower before, or even a shooting star, so it was really cool because we saw a dozen or more huuuuge ones that spanned the entire sky, and a bunch of little ones too. It was so fun! 

We came back and spent the night on their pull out sofa bed, and now it is 11AM and eric and I are going to get ready to go into Aspen to meet the girls for lunch. They are in rehearsals right now. After lunch, we're off again- headed tonight to somewhere random in Kansas, and hopefully getting to Amanda's in Bloomington, Indiana, sometime late tomorrow!!! I can't believe we are almost done! We still have many many miles to go, though, and the escort is due for another oil change!

Stat update: 

Friends visited: 12

Friends made: millions

Best food: sourdough bread bowls and clam chowder

Best purchase: matching white sunglasses

Most annoyingly awful Harry Potter character: Dolores Umbridge

Spells Cast: around 20

Oil changes: soon to be 2

Wierdest scenery: the salt flats 

fights: 1

emotional make-up conversations: 1

number of outfits left that we havn't worn yet: 0

loads of laundry done in random places: 5