We just returned from our annual "pre back to school" retreat in Breckenridge. It was a great break from the heat, highs in the 70's up there while it was almost 90 here in Colorado Springs. The 2 hour drive is really so worth it, it is such a great getaway. We usually book our lodging with Ski Country (http://www.skicountry.com/), they usually have a pretty good selection of rooms.

We took advantage of the Breckenridge Music Festival held every summer at the Riverwalk Center in Breck, and really enjoyed the symphony concert. We also had a surprisingly good meal at the The Dredge Restaurant, don't know why we had never tried it before. We always enjoy riding the chair lifts up and hiking down, and did that at both Copper Mountain and Breck. We were a little disappointed to see that Copper had done away with their free chair lift rides, it was $10 for the day, although my season pass from this past season got one of them free. Breck is $5 per ride. We skipped some of our usual favorites, like canoeing at Frisco Marina on Lake Dillon, doing the bike path from Breck to Frisco and over to Dillon, etc, but we still had a great time.

We missed the first sermon by our new pastor, Brady Boyd at New Life by being gone, but heard it went well, and we'll get more chances over the next couple of weeks. They have been good enough to post a special page for him to help people get aquainted, Click here to see New Life's Page on Brady Boyd, as well as hear some of his sermons.

The rain and hail yesterday was a wonderful cool down, I have to admit I am looking forward to more fallish weather soon!