Graduation Week, 2023--Black Monday

When Glo crawled into bed the night before, I noticed that she had a cough.  There's nothing like a cough to get me worrying...

Sure enough, in the morning, Glo was down for the count, and Gordon, despite trying to deny it, was down as well.  I thought that it was probably chlorine poisoning from the hot tub, but when I came down with the same symptoms two days later, I realized that they were really sick.

Unfortunately, I had thought I was through the worst of lung problems (having survived Pike's Peak), so I had stupidly sent most of my inhalers and all my steroids home with Hannah.  I had a couple of puffs left on my Breztri inhaler, and after Glo had used them, she was breathing much better so I knew we had to do something.

First though, we had to leave the house.  I felt SICK about saying goodbye.  It was one of the most beautiful homes I've ever stayed in, and it was now full of happy memories for me.  Did I mention that the art on the walls was created by the owner of the home? Yeah, after I asked her how the artist who signed the paintings was related to her (they had the same surnames), she told me that it was her.  I then asked her how I could purchase one, and she sent me to her site that had five paintings for sale at that moment.  I snapped one up, and that morning it was sitting on our back porch, wrapped and ready to go!  I couldn't think of a better memento for Glo and Gordon <3  She had several of Garden of the Gods, but I took the one of Pike's Peak since we could see it from our home and since *cough* we went to the top of it ;-)

I sure hope Glo and Gordon can find a house like this someday...or at least create a house like this--it would be perfect for them--so I took lots of pictures to record all the little details:

Glo had seen "Meowolf" on my list of possible Monday activities, and after hearing that Mark had gone to the one in Santa Fe, she wanted to go there.  However, just driving a short ways out of Colorado Springs, I knew we needed to do something for the sickies.  I pulled off at an exit, found a CVS and called John.  He called in two inhaler prescriptions, but they weren't going to be ready for a while.  I looked for nearby restaurant and found this fabulous joint called Crave Burgers.  Man alive, that was some good food.  The garlic parmesan fries alone were amazing.  While sitting there, I noticed a set of elders behind us and paid for their food as well.

We went back to CVS, Glo convinced Gordon to take some ibuprofen and some acetaminophen, they took a couple of hits off of the inhalers and we were off to Denver.

I wish Glo blogged because she would definitely have better things to say about Meowolf.  It was just straight up WEIRD in my book, but Gordon and I both went to support her.

And from there we drove to the airport, I sadly returned "Beemie" and we flew to Utah.  They had DnD that night, so there was no rest for the weary, but they were excited to tell their friends that they are engaged.  Their friends didn't actually notice Glo's ring (despite her best attempts to reach for everything with her left hand and to brush her hair off of her face with it as well) until afterwards when she was eating.  Most were happy for the both of them....but I'm not sure Kevin will ever come around....