Yee ha cowboy!

Forgot to keep his chin tucked

Yes - we're going to the rodeo!!  Thanks to Mat's chat with his barber today, we have discovered that the National Western Stock Show is on in Denver at the moment.  We have tickets to the rodeo on Saturday.  For the best seats, you have to wear a buckle.  This event has been running for over a century and we are hoping for the full array of cowboys, lassoeing and bucking broncos.  Yee ha.

Mutton bustin': looking forward to seeing some on Saturday. Is it too late for Dan to start? (see little boys lined up behind...)

Christmas holidays

Christmas morning looking over frozen Viele Lake to NCAR, taken 2 mins from our house.

Downtown Denver in the background outside the Pompeii exhibition

Click on photos to see them bigger! It snowed overnight on Christmas Eve and stayed below freezing day and night until after the new year: a veritable white Christmas.   No good for snowballs, but do come and use our spare room if ski-ing on powder snow is your thing.  

We went to Denver a couple of times over the holidays, including a very good Pompeii exhibition which I think is coming to the British Museum later this year, and a "van Go" exhibition.  Other than that, some lovely snowy walks and socialising with the friendly folk here.  We introduced them to crackers; amazingly, crackers are practically unheard of here.

Pepito, our neigbour's enormous rabbit

Morwenna was busy with Pepito, our neighbour's rabbit, who we managed to keep alive in arctic temperatures while they holidayed in Hawaii.

Morwenna is a sturdy walker these days

Bear Canyon trail: up through the pine woods

Lunch by the rocks

Christmas chicken dinner

Christmas day in the snow

Morwenna and her Christmas dinner