We road above the tree line (11,500 ft) on Trail Ridge Rd after packing up camp and then headed down to Estes for a wonderful buffet brunch at The Other Side. With a full belly and a little champagne buzz we hung out at Estes's Heritage festival and enjoyed the tourist-trap shops for a while and K FINALLY got his funnel cake (about the only thing we didn't check off the list while home for the Fair). |
Monday, August 23
2010-08-22_Trail Ridge Road and Estes Park Heritage Festival
2010-08-21_Camping in Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park
We camped in Rocky Mtn this past Saturday in Moraine Park Campground. Worked up a good appetite on an 8 mile hike on a loop near the campground and definitely had a significant elevation gain as well. The weather was perfect, cool enough for the fire but not too cold and the campground was well-equipped, though could have used a few more bear lockers considering we were in the Jeep with the top half on. Although we didn't actually see much wildlife this time, there's always the feeling they are nearby! |
Paige is 7!!!
turned seven and we're saying Kaitlin turned four (we just made her
birthday the same as Paigey's). They got an early morning walk and a
special breakfast with cheese and treats :)
These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google.
Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/
Weekend in Loveland/Fort Collins
friend AB lives in Loveland and was visiting Mississippi for a week
and we "house sat", taking full advantage of his beautiful yard (have
I mentioned that we have no grass in our backyard?) and wonderful
hot tub!
The drive up Hwy 25 with the doggies was a first and poor K just can
NOT settle down. Ha. Or rather, all three couldn't settle at the
same time to save our lives! Definitely made me rethink wanting to
take the girls camping.
Loveland is a cool little artsy down, from what I could tell. It was
old and quaint and reminded me of Philadelphia, MS A LOT. We didn't
actually spend much time in Loveland, other than to grab coffee as we
wanted to get on to Fort Collins for the day. Fort Collins was all
that I had heard it would be - a really cool town (and I intentionally
leave off "college" because it is large enough that it really doesn't
seem to revolve around CSU). CSU is a great addition to the town for
sure, as with any University but Fort Collins could stand alone too.
We made it to town in time to catch the weekly Farmer's Market- by far
the best one I've been to. Dogs were everywhere, all sizes and kinds.
Everyone's pooch is welcome (which seems to be universal across the
state really). After the farmer's market and seeing CSU campus, we
drove up to The Horsetooth Reservoir, which was literally 10 miles
(maybe) outside of town. No wonder CSU is called "Fort-Fun"- in the
winter you ski/snowboard and in the summer you go out on the reservoir,
who cares about class/college sports/etc. when you have all that
recreation so close! After our drive to The Horsetooth, which is
named for the shape of the rocks that surround the reservoir, we had
lunch in town at a sushi place that K frequented A LOT when he first
moved out to CO and I totally saw why- it was delicious! On a whim
(because we had heard there was no need to try if you didn't have
reservations) we went over to New Belgium Brewery for some "tastings"
along with all the other tourists! Ha. We ended up getting on the
tour list and had a great time touring the Brewery!! - minus the
metal slide at the end with gave us both surface burns. haha. That's
what you get for trying to go down a tiny, metal, spiral slide after
touring a brewery!
As always, we took lots of pics.
These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google.
Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
