This is the last and final Colorado blog! (If you're just reading these scroll all the way down to part 1 first!) So on Thursday morning some of us headed out to take the kids to St. Elmo, CO. I'd never heard of the place, but Daniel had been as a kid. It's pretty much an old ghost town in the middle of no where, but the crazy thing about it is the chipmunks! There are tons of them and they come eat of your hands! One of them actually crawled up in Paisley's lap and let her pet it!!! (Of course none of the 10 cameras were pointing that way - so there's no picture of that!) It was fun and Ryder is still talking about the "feeding the monks!"
Heading out that morning - so sweet!
THE BEST picture of Ryder's surprised face. This is when he first saw the chipmunks coming!
Eating out of Daniel's hand...
And this is my hand...
On our way home we all stopped for ice cream. think Ryder got enough? He needed Grandpa's help!
That same day while we were on our outing Rachel and a couple others CLIMBED Mt Elbert! They made it to the top! Over 14,000 feet! Took them around 9 hours. That night we all gathered for a taco dinner at the cabin that Brandy & I cooked. Friday we stayed at the lodge and took it easy and enjoyed our last day there. Ryder spent a lot of time at the creek working on throwing the million rocks Grammy told him he could throw in! Paisley got some good time during the week with Nana...
For dinner that night we drove down to Twin Lakes area and ate with the grandparents at a little lodge there. On the way Ryder exclaimed, "I'm going to TOWN!" We cracked up and agreed he'd gotten nice & comfortable with mountain life! When we got back we went down to say goodbye to the creek, or as Ryder called it, "my waddie" (my water)!
That night (about 45 mins after Daniel & I walked up from the hot tub!!!) we had a surprise guest. Daniel was downstairs on the computer and I was asleep upstairs with the kids. I'd heard something stirring outside, but I thought it was just rain or something. Then I heard a lot of movement - which I thought was Ryder moving around or climbing out of his bed. THEN I heard what I thought in my sleepy mind was Ryder falling down the stairs! I lept out of bed and screamed, "RYDER!" Well, Ryder was sound asleep! ;) It was Jonathan running down the stairs and everyone else running around trying to get a picture of the HUGE bear right out side our door rooting through our trash. By the time I was awake enough to look he was gone. He'd come back up twice and they all said that it had to have been about 8ft tall! Thank goodness it was our last night or I'd have been terrified for the whole week!
We headed out early Saturday morning on our long trek home! We had a really great time with family. The kids got a lot of quality grandparent time. The great-grands all said they felt like they really got to know the kids and their sweet little personalities during the week. Ryder got lots of time with his cousins. He's asked about them every day since! And we had good quality time with family and even a little relaxing time by ourselves!
This was the view of Twin Lakes on our way out the next morning...
We made it to Amarillo Saturday night and stayed at the same hotel as Jonathan & Brandy. The boys all thought that was so cool. We let them play in the pool together and then headed our separate ways Sunday morning for the last leg of the trip! We knew we were back in Texas when we had THIS for breakfast...
Hahaha. Only in Texas, people.
THE End. :)
1 comment:
I hate that I finally reached the end of your novel -- I loved all the pictures and stories, sounds like you guys had such an amazing trip!
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