Thursday night – Last day in Colorado, Dads birthday

Let me start by saying happy 83rd brithday to my Papa… Happy Birthday Hugh Karl Cohn.. We all love you very much !.. See you next week ! Mom sent this pic

We began our last full day here in Colorado with the intention of taking it easy.. as it happened, that didn't work out.. Diane began by making an excellent breakfast of home made chocolate sourdough bread and asparagus fritata . She brought the sourdough starter in our luggage.. how cool is that ?

When I woke up i found diane sitting by the window watching a cow nurse her calf abut 2 feet from our kitchen window.. makes it feel very homey.

We decided to take a 'short' hike…that didn't require much driving.. we went down 2 miles to the cascade falls trail we'd walked earlier and decided to try it again.. this time we kept going in search of the falls..

we made it to the first set of falls.. a double.. in about 3 hours.. all in all we were out there 6 hours ! There's an even prettier 50 foot falls about 3/4 miles further.. but we were already way past our time.. so we headed back. it was a really nice hike.. pretty flat.. some meadows.. lots of flies and mosquitoes.. the first we've really seen on our trip. Gabe and I jsumped in and put a samstone behind the falls.. I'll try to get picture of that from Gabes gopro at some point.

It was about 5:30 when we got home.. too late to go out again.. though we'd wanted to go hear rusty's band..

we all got busy packign tc because we have to leave very early tomorrow morning..

One major project remained. and that was to launch the glider that gabe and I had made out of a few bucks worth of styrofoam sheet from Home depot .. We cut it out using a pocket knife and put it together using tie wraps and duct tape.. We used a broken fiberglass rod for bracing.. The first few flights were disaster due to balance and wing position.. but a little fiddling and some extra weight.. in the form of 2 sam stones had it flying pretty straight if not that far..