Life Transplanet

Well we are within a week of our departure. We are getting everything taken care of that we need to so we can be gone for a few weeks in Puerto Rico!

We need to pack for swimming, caving, house closing, hanging out, hiking our 4 acres, going out to restaurants, repairing / fixing the house, rain, sun and of course the unknown of which there are many in Puerto Rico.

We need to make sure our animals are taken care of. In preparation for this we got a mega feeder and a mega waterer for the chickens (all 6 now).

5 gallons of water                                                15lbs of feed

We figure that should make it easier for us to take care of them all the time, and pretty easy for someone to chicken sit while we are away (hey, free eggs! Thanks Charlotte).

We’ve been listening to more reggae lately, I guess it’s part of the whole tropical theme..lol.  I am not much for reggaeton scene yet, but some of it I do like.  We also really enjoy old salsa music (oye Hector!).

It’s coming up quick! In less than one week, we’ll be in Puerto Rico ready to close on our house!

After our exciting hiking and biking, we went down the road to Mishawaka for their 5th Annual Reggae Music Festival.  We had never been to a concert there but had driven by enough times to know that it is a hippie hang out and we were interested in finding out what it was like. From the road it doesn’t look like much, but there are always a lot of motorcycles and cars pulled off to the side. When we walked in, it was apparent why it is such a cool and popular hang out. The stage is about 5 feet from the Poudre River!

They have an outside seating area where you can have food and drink, or you can stand right in front of the band. A lot of people were playing hacky-sack and dancing to the different reggae bands. There were a lot of people with dreadlocks and Jamaican colored outfits.

We also saw quite a few river rafters floating down who would pull off to the side of the river to sit, watch and listen to the bands before floating away. It was a neat experience. Even though Mishawaka is a much smaller venue, I’d have to rank it up there with Red Rocks in terms of the cool factor.

One of the various bands with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop

River Rafters Near the Mish

To the Right you can see the River