Happy Easter from Berlin
Our basket left by 'Easter Bunny'
Uh oh - snow on roadside - must be cold out there
Mansion overlooking corn fields
I wonder what stories this old place could tell...
Main Street of Seibert, Colorado
Old building in the main street
The Easter Bunny found his way to our RV in this tiny town of Seibert, Colorado this morning. Totally unexpected, we found a cute little easter basket on our step when we stepped outside this morning! The campground owners must have left it there for us which was very thoughtful. While visiting a yummy chocolate shop with Kim in Berlin, I saw a cute little easter gift for Murray, and it survived the trip home to Australia and then over to the USA. I'm just amazed that I remembered where I had hidden it in the RV when we unpacked.
Yesterday was Easter Saturday and we drove up the centre and across the west of the state of Kansas - also known as the Wheat State, and famous for it's quality steak. The scenery was ever changing, and we enjoyed seeing the old, dilapidated homesteads and the contrasting mansions overlooking the corn fields. We were en route to Colorado, but even before we crossed the Kansas/Colorado border and gained an hour (switched from central time to mountain time), the weather had cooled. In fact there were several large patches of snow on the side of the road.
We arrived at our destination of Seibert, a tiny town of less than 200 people. We only stopped here as it was the right driving distance for us from the previous stop. The campground is only basic, but offered all hook ups (electricity, water, sewer) plus cable TV and wifi for $13.60 a night, so we checked in for 2 nights. Mad if you don't! The trees here are still fairly bare - some early spring foliage, but not much as yet. Given the high is only going to be 8 C today, and it got down to -1 last night, I can understand why the trees are still in winter mode. Not to mention the snow flurries we had this morning. The locals may not have been too thrilled, but we enjoyed watching the snow flakes fall. Hope you all had a nice weekend and celebrated the true meaning of Easter.
I ran across your photos of my home town of Seibert while surfing the web and want you to know that the old buildings above could tell many stories. the upstairs of the old building pictured was where childhood friend Darlene Williams first played Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" for me on her phonograph (remember those plastic "centers"?). This was in 1964, so the song was already a classic. We lived down the street from there in a building where the newer grocery store currently is. The "old" red grocery store, Hedgecoke's Grocery" was green when I was growing up and sported a sign that said "Drugs Sold Here."
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