We had a great time last week.  We flew into Denver last Tuesday, got the rental car and headed to our good friend Studio Robb's house in Colorado Springs.  On Wednesday we drove up to South Park to see the property one last time and say hi to our neighbors Betty and Dean.  On the way, a large stag decided to commit suicide using our rental car.  What fun that was!!  Luckily no one was hurt (except the stag, who is right now probably in somebody's freezer) and we got another rental car.  On take 2, we got up to our property, then went to HOB for our traditional lunch of buffalo burgers.

On Thursday we made the insane decision to drive up to the top of Pike's Peak.  Luckily, neither Steve or I were doing the driving, but poor Studio Robb had to deal with my screaming and crying (it was REALLY high and they don't believe in guardrails out there!) on the way up and back.  Scared the pants off me, but I'm still glad I did it.

Thursday through Friday was NanDesuKon in Denver, a great anime convention.  The bummer about this was our shipment of books didn't get there in time for us to sell any, and since both of us were there, we could have really distributed a lot of them.  Steve sold his personal copy to the Carpenter family, who all wanted to read it, but unfortunately all the other boxes are probably sitting on Studio Robb's front porch, if they arrived at all.

We got to see Uncle Steve & Aunt Doreen and went out with them to a great Italian restaurant called Chianti's, and we got to say goodbye to a lot of frineds that we probably won't see for a while once we get to Japan - Jan Frazier and Bob & Emily DeJesus, Stephanie, George and all the NDK staff, and of course our great friend Studio Robb.  We'll miss them, but hope everybody comes over to see us in Japan!!