Journal Entry: August 28, 2001

Beth and I spent a long weekend in the mountains.  On Friday we drove from our house in Broomfield to the Denver Creek Campground.  Saturday, we visited another local reservoir to watch birds and got ice cream in the town of Hot Sulphur Springs. Then we drove to Winter Park and rode the Alpine Slide and saw the oompah band that was playing there for Octoberfest.  Then, it was back to our camp for dinner.  Sunday, we leisurely broke camp and headed home by way of Rocky Mountain National Park. On the drive home, we saw coyotes, antelope, moose, elk, and deer.  All in one day!  We stopped at the Alpine Vistors Center and later stopped for a short hike up to Alberta Falls, where I asked Beth to marry me.  She agreed, and we hiked back down the mountain and drove to Estes Park where we had a very mediocre meal at a Mexican restaurant.  We got home fairly late Sunday night.