University of Northern Colorado - and the ride home

I SO enjoyed my time in Colorado.  People had said that Greeley wasn't a nice town.  Now that I've been, I'm not horribly impressed with the town of Greeley (or what I saw), but the part of campus I was on every day was STUNNING.  Meet Grizz.  He is a bronze (?) statue at the University Center. 

From across the street...  You can see Grizz on the left, but the flowers are an outline of a bear profile...  it's hard to tell from the picture - sorry! :( 

This is one of the residence halls on campus...  I thought it was pretty... 

This was the first sign I saw when I got onto Campus... 

The Visitor Center was an old house - beautiful old house..

This tree was next to Gunter Hall...  It had these HUGE leaves and bean like things....  anyone know what it might be??

The flowers and sign for Gunter...

These "chimes" were always going off.. every hour... every half hour?  shoot I dunno, but I heard them ALL the time. 

Gunter Hall was named for Julius C. Gunter - the Governor of the state of Colorado at the time it was built (in the 20's).  The building was originally the school gym.  There are lots of pictures of old athlete's in the hallways and there is even still the half court circle part of the original gym floor still exposed in one part of the building.  It's kinda cool. 

One day at lunch I snapped this as we sat at a picnic table out in the lawn...

This was taken from my car during another lunch time.  The building in the distance is Gunter.  The Visitor center is to my right in this picture... 

This was taken the last day from the 3rd floor conference room where we met for our "wrap up" meeting. 

The view out of the Motel 6 window in Bernalillo, NM the night of the 23rd. 

and the bug on the window.  :) 

Chancey looking as innocent as humanly possible.... 

Kota...  :) 

Awww, P-Piper.... 

This is a picture of one of my classmates Karen, and I.  She's insisted I visit if I find myself dog showing in the PNW again :) 

and my classmate, Brande, who lives in Colorado.  Us out celebrating that we were done Thursday night.  :) 

Welcome to New Mexico?  It rained.  Quite a bit. 

At a rest stop in NM... 

We were all SO happy to get home....  and now, as you all know, we've resumed our "normal" schedule... :)