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I love coming to Colorado with the pseudo-fam.  We stay at a nice place, eat good food, marvel at the beauty of nature, and we just plain have fun.  However, if I may complain about one, teensy weensy thing – it would be this: there is no cell phone service on the mountain!

Correction: there IS service if your provider is Verizon. If it is not – good luck doing the signal dance with one arm stretched in the air while you balance on your tip toe because you though you just got a bar on your phone. Forget it. I’ve learned that one bar isn’t enough to make a call or get a text.

I suppose it’s a good thing though, because who should really be that available?  Maybe it’s God’s way of telling me to chill.

This time during our stay – we are further towards the back of the property.  Althought this means a longer trek to the elevator, it does bring with it one perk – you can sometimes get 2 bars on your phone (which IS enough to make a call)!  However, there are certain “hot spots” that promise better luck than others.  Luckily, my bedroom, near the window, by the chair, sometimes peaks at 2 bars.  The desk in my room, however, though only a mere 15 feet away, solicits nada. So I’ve been sending various text messages to friends, but so far have only had luck in the living room, not my bedroom.

I usually sleep with my phone on my bed, since I use it as an alarm, and to check the time (I frequently wake up in the middle of the night).  However, when we are in CO, I often turn my alarms off since the sounds coming from 3 little boys usually is enough to wake the whole place, neighbors included.  Last night I had gotten in to bed and had left my phone in my purse (by the desk).  I got up in the middle of the night, grabbed the phone out of my bag, and hopped back in to bed. Just as I’m falling in to that delicious part of sleep, I am jarred awake by this:

Dooo doo doo doo do do do!

AHHHH! WHAT WAS THAT?

Oh, that would be my phone. Which was on the LOUD setting (since I don’t get a signal, it never makes noises!). Picking the ungodly hour of 4 am to decide to transmit a signal and deliver me a text message! How thoughtful!