Breckenridge- my new home

6/21

After a short but tiring ride from Denver, we arrived in Breckenridge with the trip odometer reading 5420 miles.

Breckenridge was our first stop after I returned from seeing Alyse at Becky and Aaron Hoesli's wedding in Michigan and it is also where Alyse and I will be living after we get married. We were welcomed by Tony and his family and then quickly recruited into helping lay soil for the garden in front of their house, which was interesting because the growing season seems like it would be 2 months max. After helping with the garden they decided that Kyle and I would be allowed to stay and have dinner with them.

It was expesially nice for us to be able to share a few meals with their family to get a sneak peak of where Alyse and I will be living next year and to hear about Kairos and how we will be able to pour into a ministry that is reaching out to the "Breck" community.

We stayed in Breck for one full day and two nights. On the full day we got to go fishing and take a motorcycle ride for fun (what a concept). But fishing was the highlight of my day because we walked right down the hiking path in the middle of town and caught 6 brown trout in a few hours. The experience made me very excited to live in Breck with Alyse and be able to pursue some outdoor interests that we have not had the oppotunity to before. For example, Alyse has only been snowboarding one time and she is moving to Colorado in the shadow of a ski resort...so hopefully snowboarding in Colorado will be more appealing then when I took her to a garbage dumb in Ohio to try it for the first time. Anyways, after fishing we took a motorcycle ride that was bittersweet because we passed by Quandary mountain. Quandary has a little bit of history with Kyle and I because our Jr year we tried to summit in April and ended up having to stop about 150 vertical feet from the summit. But the rest of the ride over the mountain pass was beautiful.

Breck was overall a good and relaxing stay, but also very exciting for me because it will be where I get to sart life with Alyse as a married couple.