Mountain Sunrise

**I wrote this post a couple weeks ago when I was bored in class (imagine that) and never got around to posting it. Better late than never, right?

This past (way past) Sunday, Easter, a few of my friends and I got up at 4 in the morning to go to the 6am sunrise service at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in the mountains near Denver. For those of you who don't know what Red Rocks is, it is a natural amphitheatre with great acoustics surrounded by beautiful red rocks (duh.). Definitely a small piece of God's handiwork.

Going to this service was a great experience. Walking into the amphitheatre with 10,000 people in pitch black, watching the sun rise over Denver and leaving under blue, cloudless skies is something I will remember for a long time. The service itself was nice but left a lot to be desired, in my opinion. I'm really glad I went though. :)

And now! we only have 3 (actually only 1.5 now!) weeks of classes left in the semester and then one week of "finals" and paperwork. I seriously can't believe I'm almost finished with two semesters of graduate school! Then only two semesters of classes left. And then lots of big decisions need to made. Oiy. But worrying about all of that will come later. First comes playing in the mountains. :) My friends and I are all working on making our Colorado summer bucket lists so we don't miss out on anything. The best part of the summer is that we will only have class 3 days a week which leaves plenty of time to play! Sooo, summer would be the perfect time to plan your visit! HINT, HINT. NUDGE, NUDGE. :)

In all honesty, thoughts of hiking and horseback riding and rock climbing and rafting and laying by the pool and playing volleyball under the sunny and cloudless blue skies are what will keep me going for the last couple weeks of the semester. Here's hoping it will work!