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Too many pictures means two posts! Wonderful Wyoming adventures of Amelia and Nora: First off, I do have to warn people of the slightly longer length of this update. I got a bit carried away... Amelia Schurke and I (Nora Gilbertson) also headed to the west about a month ago, but we ended up in Wyoming to visit Elise, a friend and former St. Olaf skier who now skis for the University of Wyoming. We hadn't seen her for over a year, so this was a rather exciting trip for us to see one of our best friends and get a chance to explore dancing and Denver, concerts and co-ops and climbing, and mountains and more. We flew into Denver, where Elise met us coming out of the airport like lost ducklings, and were promptly treated to breakfast cooked by her grandmother, since our flight got in at 7 am. We followed this up with the Denver Botanic Gardens, which had an exhibit by Dale Chihuly (the glass blower/sculptor who made the giant sun at the Minnesota Children's Museu