Tag: coronavirus

Saying Thank You to Essential Workers

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The day before we got the stay at home orders from the Colorado Governor, I took a couple of my Girl Scouts to local grocery stores to deliver Girl Scout Cookies. The idea was to leave cookies in the break room to thank employees for dealing with cranky customers and keeping the shelves stocked.
We went to all the stores what allowed our girls to sell cookies, as well as the two Costco’s in town; my mom works for a Costco in California and said they would love it if we left them cookies. I have to say, the Costco employees gave us the warmest response! Two of the Walmarts we visited couldn’t take the cookies (but the other 7 could). Since a few of the Walmarts said ‘no’ we stopped by one of the girls’ favorite Safeway and gave some to their employees. We also passed some cookies out to firefighters at the store buying food and some people experiencing homelessness downtown.

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Next we headed to a local truck stop to deliver cookies to truck drivers. Lots of hand sanitizer and social distancing was applied. Most of the truckers were sleeping in their cabs, so we just left cookies on their stairs with notes.

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It was a well spent afternoon and when we were done the girls were happy with what they did. In the next few days the outpouring of gratitude from the truck drivers was amazing! Many found us on social media and posted ‘Thank-yous’ to my girls. We felt kind of weird getting thank-yous because we wanted to thank them, but it was great seeing the girls faces light up as I read them the responses. Have you thanked a truck driver (or other essential employee) today?
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Red Rock Open Space

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I took the girls to Red Rocks today to get out side.  While they are fond of staying inside and playing on their phones (etc.) I suspect they’re beginning to get a bit of cabin fever.  The parking lot was full when we arrived, but the nice thing about trailheads is once the parking lot is full, no one else can enter, so social distancing takes care of itself.  There were signs asking people to practice social distancing

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Because of where we ended up parking we decided to do the loop backwards, starting instead by the pond.

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We continued past all the rock climbers and did a bit of scrambling ourselves.

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I took the girls to see the landfill.  I’d never really mentioned it to them before and they were curious as to why the city would pick it’s most beautiful location to dispose of trash, but on the bright side it looks like they’re trying to clean it up.

Next we hiked up the quarry

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and then made our way back to the truck.  There were a lot of people on the trails today but social distancing was no problem at all with the wide trails and lots of open space.  I think we need to make hiking as a family a bi-weekly thing as long as we’re still allowed to be outside… I fear it won’t be long before our parks and open spaces are closed as well, which is truly a shame because it’s how I keep my mental and physical health…

We got in about 3 miles and 750′ of elevation gain in today.

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