Thursday, August 25, 2011
Skylark Mobile Home Community, Lafayette, CO: 6/13-8/23
We enjoy staying at this well-kept mobile home park right off the main drag in Lafayette. We can stroll to the many shops and restaurants in Old Town and enjoy seeing the street art along the way. They have a playground with a sprayground and it's fun to watch the families stop by and play in the water. The adults are usually the last to join in the fun, but they love it as much as the children. We wish our niece & nephews were here to enjoy it too!!
Now we're settled in for a bit over two months in the Boulder area, where we can do our usual Boulder things -- line dancing, eating out with friends, visiting friends, seeing some of the Live in HD from the Met operas on Summer Encore that we previously missed, catch up on newer movies. To celebrate Doug's birthday, we went to a performance of "Cats" by Boulder's Dinner Theater. It was quite enjoyable, but we were surprised at how many of the company we recognized from so many years ago. Also, we must add that the food has definitely gone downhill, even though the price has gone uphill. I think we prefer theater without food!
We attended a performance of the Amazing Acro-Cats (www.circuscats.com), which was quite enjoyable and adorable. Two women dressed in black, slinky, cat-like outfits (including cat ears!) worked with several cats, a groundhog, some rats and an amazing hen. The cats all did various tricks (or not, depending on if they felt like it -- in typical cat-like fashion!). The hen (Hen-diana Jones) was pretty amazing and played the tambourine & cymbals with the Rock-Cats band. They showed briefly how to train your own cat. Pandora & Jasmine did not want to hear about it!
We will be celebrating Willie's 70th (!!) birthday on 8/2 with a party at a nearby park. Living that long seems worthy of a celebration! We hope the torrential thunderstorms that have been happening each afternoon recently will be a thing of the past by party time.
After our stay here, we are planning to arrive in Albuquerque around the first of September. We currently plan to stay at least 3 months. We also plan to look around at various more "permanent" living arrangements. Our thoughts change daily, ranging from getting a new rig and continuing to travel, to renting for a year to see how we like it, to buying something low-maintenance like a condo. We hope to get to our co-op RV lot in Benson some time between December and March, depending on the Albuquerque living situation. That's about as far out as we have planned.
The cats love it here. Our spot is nice & shady, which means that there are big trees surrounding us. In these trees are all sorts of creatures: birds, squirrels and even a few raccoons. The cats' eyes (and ours!) got very big when the raccoons came into view! Between running from window to window "chasing" the squirrels, and their new battery-powered string toy that fits on the bathroom doorknob, Pandora & Jasmine are getting quite a nice amount of exercise. Trixie is happy because it keeps them out of her way. We had Trixie's bloodwork done, and her thyroid meds are doing their job a little too well -- we had to cut back a bit. Definitely good news! Pandora is hoping that we stay here forever!
Now we're settled in for a bit over two months in the Boulder area, where we can do our usual Boulder things -- line dancing, eating out with friends, visiting friends, seeing some of the Live in HD from the Met operas on Summer Encore that we previously missed, catch up on newer movies. To celebrate Doug's birthday, we went to a performance of "Cats" by Boulder's Dinner Theater. It was quite enjoyable, but we were surprised at how many of the company we recognized from so many years ago. Also, we must add that the food has definitely gone downhill, even though the price has gone uphill. I think we prefer theater without food!
We attended a performance of the Amazing Acro-Cats (www.circuscats.com), which was quite enjoyable and adorable. Two women dressed in black, slinky, cat-like outfits (including cat ears!) worked with several cats, a groundhog, some rats and an amazing hen. The cats all did various tricks (or not, depending on if they felt like it -- in typical cat-like fashion!). The hen (Hen-diana Jones) was pretty amazing and played the tambourine & cymbals with the Rock-Cats band. They showed briefly how to train your own cat. Pandora & Jasmine did not want to hear about it!
We will be celebrating Willie's 70th (!!) birthday on 8/2 with a party at a nearby park. Living that long seems worthy of a celebration! We hope the torrential thunderstorms that have been happening each afternoon recently will be a thing of the past by party time.
After our stay here, we are planning to arrive in Albuquerque around the first of September. We currently plan to stay at least 3 months. We also plan to look around at various more "permanent" living arrangements. Our thoughts change daily, ranging from getting a new rig and continuing to travel, to renting for a year to see how we like it, to buying something low-maintenance like a condo. We hope to get to our co-op RV lot in Benson some time between December and March, depending on the Albuquerque living situation. That's about as far out as we have planned.
The cats love it here. Our spot is nice & shady, which means that there are big trees surrounding us. In these trees are all sorts of creatures: birds, squirrels and even a few raccoons. The cats' eyes (and ours!) got very big when the raccoons came into view! Between running from window to window "chasing" the squirrels, and their new battery-powered string toy that fits on the bathroom doorknob, Pandora & Jasmine are getting quite a nice amount of exercise. Trixie is happy because it keeps them out of her way. We had Trixie's bloodwork done, and her thyroid meds are doing their job a little too well -- we had to cut back a bit. Definitely good news! Pandora is hoping that we stay here forever!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 3:36 PM 
