DAY 28: Freak Hail Storm at Mork & Mindy's House Today!!

DAY 28:  Estes Park, CO - July 28, 2010

Well, we have arrived in Estes Park, CO.......unfortunately, we haven't seen much of it just yet.........well, unless you consider going straight down Main St. during some type of highly-attended festival with millions (ok, I exaggerated....THOUSANDS!) of people coming at me in car, truck, on foot, skateboard, scooter and wheelchairs......geeeeeezzzzz.....Here I am, almost 40' long pulling a 12' trailer and not completely sure where I'm going, with people coming at me from every direction.... I must tell you, I'm not completely sure I didn't run over some of them.......but we made it to the campground (I'm still scratching my head on how we found this place....) and we have a most beautiful site overlooking a river......LUCKKKKY.......  Tomorrow, hopefully we will be one of those people taunting RV drivers on Main St.......

Anyway, here's a gorgeous view from our windshield as we were coming into Estes Park.....this was just prior to the madness we were getting ready to experience on Main St.......

And this is a view from same windshield of our campsite view.........

Complain as I may about the craziness on Main St., things could have been much, much, much, much worse.........After we got settled into our campsite, we were watching the local news and saw where there had been a "freak" hail storm in Boulder early this afternoon; an 8" of hail freakiness!  Now, I'm thinking to myself,; "We just came through Boulder a couple hours ago....." I know this cause I remember thinking thats where Mork and Mindy are from....anyway, this storm must have come right behind us cause they were showing that it had hit right where we had just been......Check out these pictures from the news.....This is hail, folks; not snow.  See.....the good Lord put his "Bubble of Protection" around us just as we asked Him to prior to leaving Manitou Springs!!

So we get settled into our spot, and low and behold, we have a Bigger Than Life Texan from Houston right smack next door......The minute he opened his mouth, I knew he was a Texan!!!

I then tried to get Murphy to pose for a picture out on a rock in the river, but he was quite the stinker and fought me tooth and nail......memories of Garden of the Gods back in Manitou Springs is still fresh on his mind I'm figuring........You may recall, he almost got stuck in a "cave" high up on a rock during another of our many photo-ops......







And I know you've all been wondering about Kittie Kruger..........she's doing fine....we haven't misplaced her any more and she spends most of her days looking out the front window at all the people and dogs going by.....she seems quite content eating, sleeping and checking out people pointing at her.......she really is much happier than she looks in the picture.......