Three weeks in a list

It's amazing how much coming home from a holiday can restore all the mild panics I have when I am away about who I am, what I want, and where I'm going. I suddenly feel like whatever was centering me before I left, has now returned. It's such a lovely feeling!

I've come back still without a plan, still without a clue what happens next. I have some work, but it's nothing permanent - thankfully! So next comes... a job search, a soul search, opportunity search, I suppose all of those ideas encompass what is to happen next.

I suppose I should be excited...

Colorado was good. Favourite memories include...

• Meeting Tia (brother's dog) in the airport car park

• Having the best nights sleep ever the first night

• Laughing in the car on the way to Telluride

• Driving into Telluride and remembering how damn beautiful it is

• Setting up camp under the aspen trees
  

• Luke scaring the life out of little Sean when he was least expecting it

• Hanging out with Ali

• Watching the Aspen trees glitter in the wind and sunlight

• Having so many innuendo's in my head that I didn't know which one to say first... and then I ended up saying none of them

• Meeting new, interesting people

• First shower in 3 days feeling like heaven on earth

• Eating a huge, juicy, cold apple!

• Taggart saying "Hay is for horses" whenever I greeted him

• Seeing and rocking out to The Frames live

• Shaking Glen Hansard's hand, realising it was really warm

• Wishing I'd said something better than what I did, to Glen Hansard

• Watching the crowd dance in the snow (in the middle of June!)

• Watching the crowd throw marshmallows at each other from all directions (I wish I'd taken a photo!)

• A record number of Americans saying "Heather?" when I introduce myself by saying "Hi, I'm Helen..."

• Holding a tarantula because my brother was too chicken to do it first
  

• Being surrounded by so many butterflies I felt like they were all there for me

• Seeing three beavers in the beaver pond

• Getting ridiculously drunk, and somehow becoming even more funny than usual

• Waking up the next day still feeling drunk

• Taking a photograph of a chipmunk eating a dandelion stalk - simple things!

• Hanging out in Boulder for the day, just reading

• Being able to say to people in town with clipboards... "No, I'm English!"

• Eating dark chocolate mousse cake in a posh Italian restaurant

• Watching "Wanted" and then slating the film afterwards with my brother

• Meeting an Irish guy called Keith before I got on the plane, only to find we were sat right next to each other

• Coming home to clean sheets, a shower, and my laptop!

I think I summed pretty much everything up on my trip! If you want to hear more about anything, all you have to do is ask ;-)

I'm so happy to be home, I cannot explain!