Kenny Chesney Live at Lambeau Field

For Aunt Gretchen's Birthday, Uncle Scott surprised her with an RV packed with close friends.  Dad and I met up with them also as a surprise and went to see Kenny Chesney at the home of the World Champions of Super Bowl 2011, the Green Bay Packers.  I have always wanted to go to Lambeau Field, so I jumped at the opportunity to go there to see my future husband, Kenny Chesney.  (Hint! Hint!  Aunt Gretchen and Uncle Scott, hook me up!)  This trip was a blast.

Yes, this is a picture of an RV in an airport.  This was also my ride.

Aunt Gretchen, Uncle Scott and I cruising in the RV on the way to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Dad and I "honing our skills" for the concert.  Is that a goatee?

A bar on wheels.  The perfect tailgating asset.  The people next to us in the parking lot were tailgating in this.  They had a full bar behind the counter.  Aunt Gretchen decided we HAD to introduce ourselves.

Happy Birthday Aunt Gretchen! (In the tailgating bar on wheels)

Lambeau Field!

This is the coolest sidewalk ever!  It is right next to their practice field.

These signs are all over the stadium.

Dad and the one and only, Vince Lombardi.

The back gate to Lambeau Field.

All of the signs around here are of football players, but this one is by far the best.

Billy Currinton took the stage after Uncle Kracker, before the Zac Brown Band and Kenny Chesney.  He has some great songs that I never knew he sang.

Super Bowl Champions 2011.

Dad and I before the concert.

The Zac Brown Band.  Notice he is wearing a green and yellow beanie to support the Packers.

Uncle Scott and Aunt Gretchen having a great time.

The suspense was killing me.

And then he came out of the sky, it was so cool.

We were pretty far away, so it was easiest to watch the big screens.

Cool lighting effects, makes him look like he is glowing.

The stadium was completely packed.

This was taken towards the end of the show.  The cool thing about this concert was the he brought out all of the previous opening singers and they all performed a grand finale.  I don't know of any other musicians who do that.

Mike McCarthy, Kenny Chesney, and the Lombardi trophy.  Now that is cool!  Kenny brought him out at the end of the show and he was carrying the trophy.  The crowd went nuts.

Kenny playing one of my favorites, "Summertime".

Mountain Biking Happy Jack

I had the day off again, so I loaded up my bike and drove out near the Vedauwoo.  Just before Vedauwoo, you come to Happy Jack Recreation Area.  This place is full of mountain bike loops.  Several of the trails are used for ATVs, horses, and hikers as well.  This was a big accomplishment for me as I was a little nervous to be going mountain biking in a new place with no map.  I stopped at several places on the way and nobody could give me any information.  Luckily, the trails were pretty well marked.

This is the beginning of the trail system at Happy Jack.

The view from the ridge as I climb.

The trail winds through beautiful aspen groves.

This is near the beginning of the trail.  My bike was not nearly this clean afterwards.

This trail is called The Summit.  It is double track and covered with snow in several parts.  Up ahead you can see a snow drift and a small lake.

As I climbed the Summit trail I encountered much more snow and soon was hiking with my bike more than I was riding.  So, I turned around and found a single track trail called Headquarters.

I love this single track!

The Headquarters trail is the most well known trail in Happy Jack.  I can see why, I loved it!

After I got too high on the Headquarters trail and ran into more snow, I came back down and ended up on this trail called The Meadows.  Most of this trail was a running creek from all of the snow melt.

The largest snow drift that I had to hike a bike over.  So did everyone else.

Vedauwoo

Pronounced VAY-DE-VOO; located between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming.  I had the day off today so I drove out here for a morning hike.  This place reminds me a lot of Moab, except the rocks are not red, and there are a ton more trees here.  This hike turned into something more like bouldering.  The trail sort of disappeared, so people just climbed up the boulders.

This is a view of some of the rocks at Vedauwoo.  It is made up of huge boulders.  People come here to explore and climb up them.

These rocks are so built up there is an entire mountain range of them.

I climbed up some of the boulders.  It was much easier to go up than to come down.

A close up of some of the boulders and trees in this area.

This rock made a perfect recliner.

You can see the top of one of these boulder mountains in the background.

Balanced rocks in the distance.

It is hard to tell how big these boulders are, but I couldn't even reach the notch of this rock that is almost touching the tree.

The Vedauwoo mountains.

At the Vee Bar: Wildlife

Here are some photos of some wildlife that I have seen in the two weeks since working on the ranch.

Kit and Kaboodle, miniature donkeys.

Kit or Kaboodle?

There are two males and one female bald eagle that live on the property.  There is a giant nest with a baby bald eagle also.

This was a close as I could get today, but I do see them everyday.

This is the nest, if you look closely you can see the baby bald eagle.

This is a view of the mountains from the Vee Bar Ranch.

There are antelope everywhere out here!