Colorado, part 1

We did it! Deb and the kids and I took a two day (each way!) cross country trip to Colorado to visit my family. Did I mention the two days in the car?!? Anyway, it was well worth it. First, we didn't kill each other by the time we finally got there, and second, our time there was simply incredible. Really!

We were crazy busy each day, but we also had plenty of time to catch up with my mom, my sister and her family, and my brother and his family. We even had a memorial for my dad, which really meant a lot for us.

What else? Well...we went on a train ride through the Royal Gorge (home of the world's highest suspension bridge), rode horses, rafted through the gorge, hunted for dinosaur bones, waded in a mountain river, saw a crazy man's (my opinion) "castle" in the mountains, walked around a mountain top lake, talked to a slowly-getting-drunk Colorado man who just broke his collar bone from a fall form his motorcycle (and hadn't been to town to fix it yet), saw ghosts in our pictures (ya gotta ask us about this!), ate at a Sonic restaurant, walked across the Royal Gorge bridge, gambled our money away at an old gold-mining town (Cripple Creek), climbed red colored cliffs in Red Rock, visited an old west town (Buckskin Joe's), and, well...I don't know, a bunch more fun stuff. We really had a blast! Then we had to drive two days home...ugh.

Here's a few of our favorite pictures: our train ride through the Royal Gorge, mom, me, Sam, and Scott, the gang having supper at mom's house, Deb and I, the four of us at the Royal Gorge bridge. Be sure to click on them to see them bigger! Enjoy!