A Day at the Family Farm

The Bauer farm was a big hit with Landon and Owen on a beautiful fall day. Melissa and the boys picked me up and we headed to the farm to ride the machines!

Reactions to the combine starting up!

Tractor rides with great-grandpa.

Riding in the scoop.

....and riding the four-wheeler!

Playing in the garden shed with great-grandma.

Celebrating great-grandma's birthday.

USA U17 Mini-Camp

29 of the best U17 basketball athletes in the country were invited to the Olympic Training Center for a weekend of fierce competition and preparing for the World Tournament next summer. Head coach, Don Showalter ran the weekend practices in Colorado Springs.

Warming up for Day 2!

Colorado

Next stop - Colorado Springs. We landed home for about two hours and started our drive to Colorado. First night we stopped in Omaha and then finished the trip the next day. Before Don reports to the Olympic Training Center for a mini camp with his USA Team we are spending 3 days/nights in Cascade in the mountains. We are staying at the Rocky Mountain Lodge.

This is NOT where we are staying!

This is our lodge!

The three course breakfast was yummy!

Jeep Tour on the first day.

Don with "Curly" our jeep driver.

The road!  Hairpin curves, washboard bumps, rocky, and then snow!

We were up 10,000 feet!  Beautiful.

Pike's Peak via the cog railway on the second day

Garden of the Gods for our third day


Steamboat Rock

Balanced Rock

Kissing Camels

A view of Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods.

Sunset over Pike's Peak taken from the Olympic Training Center.

We headed to Denver for several days/nights after Don finished with his USA Team mini-camp. On the way we stopped at the Air Force Academy.

We stayed at the historic Brown Palace in a beautiful corner room suite!