Em and Ian visited us a couple weeks ago.

(Well, they had all kinds of stories about how they were here to see Colorado, look at grad schools, la dee da, but *I'm* pretty sure they came just to see us.)

Here they are looking all happy:

While they were here, we had a couple of lovely dinners together with them and I spent a Sunday in Estes Park, exploring the wild. Holy smokes there were a lot of elk!

Oh yes, and also a lot of rocks. Some of them super interesting. Fortunately we had Ian the geological engineering expert with us.