Day 3 - Fort Collins, Colorado

I spent most of Saturday continuing to drive through Kansas, but I took a break to go see "Up." It joins the elite ranks of the few movies that would have made me cry, if, you know, I wasn't so manly *cough, cough.* I also stopped just short of the state line to see "Prairie Dog Town," home of the world's largest prairie dog, along with lots of other animals. In fact, the ground was covered with burrows, and you had to watch your step to miss them.

This is the world's largest Prairie Dog. I think it might be fake.

The sign said they were Russian Wild Boars. They don't look that wild to me, nor are they in any particular rush.

Later that night, I stopped at a rest stop just inside of Colorado, and discovered that on the other side of an open gate was a community center with some kind of commotion going on. I went to check it out, and it turned out to be a Quinceanera. I had some appropriate clothing, so I watched for a while, but since everything was in Spanish, and I didn't know how to dance to anything, it was pretty boring.

This afternoon, I arrived at Fort Collins, Colorado, in order to visit Colorado State, one of the schools I'm considering for graduate school. I have a meeting with the professor tomorrow, but today I checked out a Christian housing facility. It was very nice (and co-ed), but it costs an arm and a leg, and a meal plan is required on top of that. So that doesn't look too promising there. I plan on staying in town for a couple of days to finish checking out the campus and go hiking in the mountains, but after that, it's off to the Grand Canyon.