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Garden of the Gods
Garden of the Gods is a popular natural landmark nestled at the foot of Pikes Peak on the west side of Colorado Springs. It is known for its massive red rocks sticking straight out of the ground – it was quite impressive! No Climbers on the day we were there! It was very windy! This is…
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Pikes Peak—Summit
We made it to the Summit today! Yesterday it was only open to 11,000 feet and this afternoon they opened it to the TOP —14,115 feet! So we took off. It was a VERY EXTRA scary drive. It’s 19 miles total! I prayed, leaned into the middle of the car, held my breath, couldn’t talk,…
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Drive out West
We wanted to go visit our son in Colorado and also take a vacation. We were not wanting to fly on a plane so we decided to drive. It’s about a 20-ish hour drive from Mississippi. We first stopped in Dallas and stayed with a friend and ate dinner with some friends and had a…
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Highlands NC Girls Trip
Beautiful view from Highlands! Highlands North Carolina is a quiet town in the mountains about two hours north of Atlanta. It is absolutely beautiful, very clean, and quaint town. HIKING… We did some small and some long hikes. We loved WhiteSide Mtn. trail. Be sure to do the loop and not walk up and back…
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Steamboat/Snowmass 2020
We love to go out west! Especially in February. For some reason the flights into Steamboat /Hayden are very inexpensive the week before Presidents Day. We stayed in Steamboat at the Inn at Steamboat. It was cozy and quaint. I will definitely go back. We only skied one day. Lift tickets are extremely high .…
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Glacier 🏞 National Park
We love traveling and adventures! Glacier National Park is the most beautiful place! We have loving being in Montana with low temperatures and no humidity. GNP is a wonderful place to spend a week or long weekend! I’ll share some of our favorite places. The first day we went to Avalanche Lake…
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A long weekend in Washington, D.C.
One of my husband and I’s favorite place to visit is Washington D.C. I loved there during college and went back after college . We lived there again when my husband was in his fellowship training and one of our sons was born at Georgetown, my sister and her family live there, my son and…
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Another trip to the Tomato Festival 🍅🍅🍅🍅 2019
Every year in Crystal Springs, they host an annual Tomato Festival. Many politicians, delicious food venders, and tons of antique cars everywhere you turned! We enjoyed walking around and taking it all in. We bought tomatoes and pork skins. We got to meet the Tomato Festival Queen and saw the Tomato decorations all over town.…
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FarmGirlFlowers for our 30th anniversary
It has been an amazing 30th wedding anniversary year. We celebrated in March in Hawaii with a 10 day trip! Our oldest son got married and that brought back so many memories. I had the best time looking through our wedding album before his wedding. His wedding reception was at the same venue where ours was…
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Cossar State Park – annual family reunion 2019 and history of Cossar Family reunions
The weekend after Memorial Day every year has been a 3 day family reunion in Oakland, MS. It is across the highway from Charleston, Mississippi, where the Cossars are from. It is at a beautiful State Park in North Mississippi named after my grandfather, whom we called ‘Papa Keet.’ https://www.facebook.com/cossarstateparkfriends/ Finney and Harper playing golf…
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