Tired of Country Yet? NOPE

It's been a week since I've been in Falcon and loving the emptiness of it. Though the people I'm staying with have told me that there used to be more empty fields than there are now. In the past, six years more houses and stores have been built surrounding Colorado Springs.

This miniature city, Colorado Springs, reminds me of Manchester, CT or maybe Waterbury. So many stores and literally everything you could want you'll find within a 15 minute radius. I like how the house I'm in is in the countryside yet less than 2 minutes down the road, there's a Walmart. Back in CT, it took us 15 minutes or more to the nearest Walmart. Though we did have a grocery store less than 2 minutes away. I could definitely get used to this!

A few days ago, a friend of mine came to visit! So excited! We hadn't seen each other since IC graduation. We went to Garden of the Gods and Seven Falls. Though getting to the Seven Falls proved to be quite a ride. We didn't want to wait for the shuttle since we weren't sure when the rain would start so we decided to drive there and park closer. Well, we followed the signs and then came up upon a dirt road. Unsure what to do, we continued up the dirt road. Well.....this road twisted and dipped and ascended. There were quite a few potholes as well. However, the view was gorgeous! After a good twenty minutes on this road, we see a map and got out to look at it. From my perspective, since it didn't have any landmarks other than this peak and that peak, I deduced that we should keep going since it looked like we didn't have that much farther to go before we would go down the mountain. About 5 minutes later, we came upon a ranch. There we asked whether or not we were close to Seven Falls. He shook his head sadly. It was way back where we started. Clearly, the state of CO needs to have clearer signs!

So after twisting and turning yet again down the mountain with stops to take pictures we found ourselves where we began. However, my friend's GPS was taking us all over town. So I turned mine on. I asked her while we were following mine, "If mine leads us somewhere else other than our destination, what do you want to do?" At this point, it's 4 pm in the afternoon and we started this trek around 2:30. Well, have dinner! Luckily, we found it and had an amazing time minus, the climbing up to get closer to the waterfall. I suggest you workout a little more before going up there :D