MAJESTIC! Rock Mountain National Park!

The camera just doesn't do it justice, what more can I say?

Estes Park, Colorado

We spent several hours at Mount Rushmore, then we were off again back down south headed toward Rocky Mountain National Park. We drove down south through Wyoming and over to Cheyenne, through Cheyenne and down the freeway toward Denver. We got to Loveland, Colorado around 9 or 10 that night and ended up staying in another motel, because it was so late and we didn't want to set up camp in the dark. We planned on camping more and were prepared for it, but hey we did have one more night of it.

The next morning we were up and driving into Rocky Mountain National Park with a few side trips along the way.

Before I met Dennis, I worked for a summer at a YMCA conferance center outside of Estes Park. I wanted to go back there and see it again. So we were able to drive there and look around a little. It had been about sixteen years since I was there, but it was a fun little trip down memory lane for me. I made some great friends that summer and had some fun experiences. Some things were the same and some were different, they were doing construction and some of the buildings I remembered had been torn down. It was still in it's beautiful setting though surround by the Rocky Mountains.

We also stopped at a tram station and took a ride up a mountain! As you can tell Cade, wasn't too thrilled with the heights!

Mount Rushmore....sort of

The next morning we got up and drove about two hours to Mount Rushmore! It is in the black hills area of South Dakota just south of Rapid City. I thought the area around it was pretty. It was really neat to see it in person...you know something you see in pictures or the movies. And I'm sure you're wondering where the pictures are? Well, sad story...when we got there I could not find my smaller camera so I grabbed our older bigger one, and got some great pictures I might add. Well I ended up dropping it and busted it pretty bad, but I'm pretty sure we can still get the pictures off of it, so hopefully I'll be able to post them soon!

and then on to.........

Mount Rushmore! We drove across Idaho, and said "HI" to my brother Larry in Idaho Falls. We camped outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It was FREEZING that night and the air mattress wouldn't keep the air in it, so needles to say neither Dennis nor I got much sleep. Although the kids seemed to do ok. The next morning we got up and froze as we took our camp down and headed into Jackson Hole and had a warm breakfast at Mcdonald's (which cost a fortune, because we were in Jackson Hole). We got on the road and drove through Teton National park, which was beautiful of course!

Most of Wyoming was pretty flat and dry looking, we finally got to Newcastle, Wyoming on the Wyoming South Dakota border, and since we had a horrible night the night before we ended up staying in a little motel, so we could have a better night sleep!

Our trip

We went on a pretty long road trip. We've been home for several weeks now, but here it goes! We stayed overnight with my parents in Utah (thanks once again mom and dad!) and headed up to "The Farm" in Idaho. We always have a good time!

We made it!

It's been awhile since I've posted. The kids are home for the summer, what more can I say?

We just got back from a whirlwind road trip. We drove over 3500 miles I think and visited several states. We saw some things we've never seen before, been on some roads we've never traveled before, and had great times with family and friends. I will be posting pics soon I hope, but for now I am trying to get things cleaned up, put away, washed, and back into the swing of things!

Daniel is off to scout camp on Saturday, he will be gone a week. So we need to get him ready too! Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Nice Getaway!

Dennis and I had a nice weekend trip to San Diego/Magic Mountain this last weekend in celebration of our 15 years together! It was relaxing, and we had some great rides on some roller coasters! There were a few however, that I didn't even want to attempt, but had great fun on the one's we did! I didn't even think to take any pictures the whole weekend though! Thanks to Grandma for watching our kids and aunts and uncles who helped!!