DARREN PICKED KEN UP LATE YESTERDAY ON HIS WAY HOME........HE HAD SPENT THE WEEK IN YELLOWSTONE NAT'L PARK WITH HIS CHURCH BOYS......HE SENT ME AN EMAIL REMINDING ME OF THE FUN TRIPS ALL OUR FAMILY TOOK UP THERE......
WHICH REMINDED ME OF MY SUMMER AT MESA VERDE NAT'L PARK........I HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD.......YET SOME OF MY BEST MEMORIES ARE RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S.
THE SUMMER AFTER I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL I WENT TO WORK AT MESA VERDE NAT'L PARK AS A WAITRESS IN SPRUCE TREE LODGE.......I HAD BEEN FRIENDS WITH THE CHILDREN OF ANSEL HALL WHO RAN THE PARK EACH YEAR......THEY LIVED IN MANCOS IN THIS WONDERFUL BIG HOUSE...........HE HAD THESE TRIPLETS.......ROGER, ROBIN AND LAUREL. THE GIRLS WERE IDENTICAL, LOLLY HAD A MOLE ON HER FACE......HOW WE TOLD THEM APART. THEY WERE ONE YEAR YOUNGER THAN ME.......SO THEY GOT ME AND A FRIEND JO MCCRUM A JOB UP THERE........THEIR FATHER PUT THEM TO WORK ALSO........ THE GIRLS HAD A DORM IN BACK AND THE BOYS HAD A DORM, BUT GETTING IN AND OUT THE WINDOWS WASN'T TOO HARD!!! I MET A FUN GUY NAMED CHUCK FROM WISCONSIN.......WHICH MADE MY SUMMER EVEN MORE FUN....... ANSEL HAD HIRED A COMPLETE BLACK KITCHEN CREW........WHICH WAS THE FIRST BLACK PEOPLE I HAD EVER SEEN? I THOUGHT THEY WERE GREAT........WE LOVED THE TOURIST, THE KEVIA PARTIES AND I WAS CLOSE TO HOME AS MANCOS IS THE GATEWAY ON THE EAST TO THE PARK.......CORTEZ ON THE WEST.......THE HISTORY WE WERE SURROUNDED BY NOW BLOWS MY MIND.......THAT WAS ABOUT 61 YEARS AGO NOW!!!!
I LOVE WONDERFUL MEMORIES LIKE THAT..........
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