No Agenda

As promised, photos from yesterday’s awesome hike.

It’s Thursday. It’s a beautiful day here in southern Colorado. We are doing our morning routine: sitting on the back porch, sipping coffee, reading some verses from the Bible, relaxing and relishing the idea that we have no agenda. Years ago, when we were younger and the children were so easily bored, we were busy vacationers. We would plan picnics, and swim time, ride horses and play putt-putt and tennis and go on small hikes every day. It was wonderful for the children and they loved every minute of it. We did too. But now that they are older, it’s so nice not to have to fill every moment with an activity. Alison is only six, but is such a laid-back kid that she is fine not to be going every moment. And since she is sick this year, she couldn’t do it anyway. So here we are, with no real plan for the day. We head up to the coffee shop every day between 10 and 11 a.m. to check email, Facebook (teenagers), and blog (Erin and I). We don’t have internet access in our room, which makes me feel sort of strange. It seems each year I get more dependent on the computer, which might not be a good thing since we’re on vacation. After all, we’re supposed to be “getting away from it all.” But as far as computer access goes, I’m about to put that in the same category as the telephone. Most of us would never consider going to a place where we didn’t have telephone access. This coffee shop is packed every day with people hauling in their laptops. I suppose if the condos didn’t have telephones, we would all be standing in line to use the phone at the coffee shop. Never mind. There is cell phone access up here. So we’re almost covered. There’s no getting away from it all…not even in the mountains. Oh, and if you’re wondering, I write a post at the condo, save it to a Word file, then insert it at the coffee shop. That’s about all that’s on my agenda for today