I am tired.

This has already been a full weekend and it's only half over. I winterized our house on Friday. Well, sort of. The windows leak heat like a sive. This is not very helpful when we see the natural gas prices soar due to the hurricanes. We are going to get stuck with this and our house's furnace is a gas glutton. Can you tell I'm worried about this a little? I wish I had a more heat efficient house...especially this year.

So that was Friday. Today, I led our homeschool fathers and their kids on a tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. I ended up taking an hour and change going around the grounds and honestly, I almost felt at times like I was boring them to death. The guys loved it though and found it very interesting. I should probably figure out how to better explain some things if I make this a yearly deal. Still, things went as good or better than I had planned and the kids got a kick out of it too. It was very fulfilling to see that all that I've absorbed on a subject I find interesting finally put to good use.

I wouldn't be nearly as tired (and sore) if we hadn't taken a side trip to Red Rocks Amphitheater. It's a world famous concert venue, noted for many concert videos shot there, including U2: Live at Red Rocks, which was like catching lightning in a bottle because the video wasn't planned to be nearly as good as it actually turned out to be. The amphitheater is carved into the side of a mountain, surrounded in a natural amphitheater of red sandstone. The kids loved listening to a guitarist playing so far below on the stage and yet still being able to hear him above. Here's a photo of Red Rocks during a concert.

Obviously, the place is huge. The top left of the photo barely captures the back row. I climbed every last step from the stage to the top, and now...I am very, very sore. I think my plan to exhaust the kids backfired.

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