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Colorado 2006

My girlfriend and I just got back from Colorado with some of our best friends the Brownings. What a trip! We started out camping at the base of mount Princeton and ended our trip in Aspen. If anyone reading this has never been to Aspen let me explain how cool it really is. Its small, but has amazing restaurants, shopping, galleries and its all walkable. So, in the crisp mountain air you have the perfect walkable city full of all your desired activities in the beautiful mountain setting with all the adventure you can find in the mountains or on the rivers. We also whitewater rafted. Vanessa was a bit scared by this at first, but she ended up having an absolute blast.

Another objective I had on this trip involved a certain diamond ring I had in my back pack during the entire trip. We had plans to hike to the top of Mt. Princeton. My plan was to propose from the top and I had this beautiful symbolic speach planned because the road to marriage has not been easy, but once you make it to the top you overcome with the beauty of it. One little problem. Vanessa got a nice altitude headache and this made her miserable and quite cranky. Once we were above the tree line, I had considered proposing there, but she was such in such a cranky mood, I knew it wasn't the time. Poor Eric and Lauren knew what my plans were and they kept trying to encourage Vanessa along. But it wasn't the right time... I didn't know it, but God had a better proposal plan for me in just a few weeks. Hind sight is 20/20, and I'm glad that it didn't work out in Colorado.

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