Monday, August 6, 2007
Boyd Lake State Park, Loveland, CO - July 23-26
We had heard about this park while living in Boulder, but had never camped here, so when our good friend Lloyd recommended it, we decided to give it a try. Boyd Lake and the park are surrounded by Loveland, but it is still a pleasant setting. The campground is far enough from the lake that you don't get a lot of boating noise, but still within easy walking distance.
We spent time with the campground hosts, friends from The Ranch co-op in Lakewood, NM, and another couple, also from The Ranch, who happened to be here, which made our stay especially pleasant. In addition, we had a visit from Mark & Susan who hadn't seen us enough, and a very enjoyable dinner with Sue & Rick Yoder from Fort Collins, whom we hadn't seen in over ten years. Our good friend, Naomi LaPointe, is now living at the Good Samaritan retirement village in Loveland, so we were able to have several nice visits with her. Our friend Mary Ann from Longmont joined us for the second visit. Loveland is also home to an amazing Sculpture Garden. We only had time to see about a quarter of the sculptures, and more continue to be added each year. As usual, there is lots to come back for!
We spent the major part of a day driving up the Big Thompson River Canyon to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain Natl Park. The scenery was gorgeous and there weren't so many people that it was unpleasant. We enjoyed the cool mountain air and had a nice picnic at Endovalley, one of our favorite areas. We made a quick stop in town for some fudge.And, believe it or not, we still found time to play bridge, although our level of exhaustion may account for the fact that we never seemed to be on the same track, and probably did worse than we ever have since we started playing duplicate.
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