So last week my little family went on a much needed R&R vacation to the land of clean air and beautiful mountain sunsets. I took my camera and popped off about 700 plus photos in "RAW" format that has been a bit hard to work through on my NIKON software. I have been able to get some of the photos formatted to a smaller more web friendly version for your viewing pleasure. These photos are in a file on my computer and I will be putting them on this blog in order that they were taken with a little info about each. Bear with me because the reformatting from RAW to JPEG is not as easy as you would think with this many photos. Here are a few of the photo's that were taken at random times throughout the week. More to follow. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOlD-59yL0DxTk1XHI06p5CIfVV4rHlsLW7bcLMS33iH3GPiLak-A6bhDkMXivqB1APOUOd1u4oIzlqEn9rI3DBJiuq-Oqkw6I3thsZnVoRfHKSBEdeWV1MpSAO6eWEpOi8gKg/s320/DSC_0458.JPG)
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Photo from "Our Garden" near the Garden of the Gods.
At the Olympics Center in the Springs.
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Pic of Rae on the way to the top of Pikes Peak.
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One gorgeous sunset taken from....."Wal-Mart"....go figure.
Went to Jose Muldoon's for lunch one day. Great food, and very good memories for me and my best friend CJ. (It's changed quite a bit CJ...go check it out sometime)
Many more to come and in better order.