For the past week and three days, our family has traveled to the wonderful city of Castle Rock, Colorado. Over the next few posts I would like to share some pictures from that trip.
I love Colorado soo much! The mountains are gorgeous and the weather is even more so, it only got up to the nineties on one day. The only downside is the long drive. Either we spend a lot of money on a flight, or we spend less on a thirteen hour drive. Usually we get up around 3:00-4:00 am in the morning and make the long haul in one day, oh well I think Colorado is worth it. :)
At the end of the day (Thursday, June 30th), when we were an hour from Castle Rock, Mommy surprised me by meeting a dear friend at the nearby Cracker barrel.
 |
| You may remember her from here (the second picture). Now she is pregnant with a baby boy! |
I was so blessed to see her again. It was really the highlight of the long day of driving. That, plus stepping out of the car and being blasted with upper sixty, lower seventy degree weather (I literally squealed!).
The next day (Friday, July 1st) we just relaxed, and enjoyed the weather. But on Saturday we drove to Golden State Park and hiked one of the mountains there. Above is a picture of a house on the way
up to the mountain we were going to hike. I was slightly jealous, that person has an amazing view!
This is a photo of the mountain we climbed, it may not look like much but it was about a 6.5 mile hike. We all were a little tired, but still invigorated at the end. We went all the way to that clump of rocks at the top of the mountain on the left.
 |
| Before the hike. |
 |
| Ryan so cute with his hat and backpack! |
 |
| Daddy and Mommy. I love them. :) |
 |
| Mr. Mountain Man, sort-of pretending like he was climbing a rock. Mostly he thought it was a cool picture (and of course he is wearing his Sound of Music shirt :) ) |
|
|
 |
| Nana and Papa (Daddy's parents) resting. |
After we finished the hike we ate lunch, and drove to nearby historic Georgetown. Once we arrived we enjoyed walking around and looking at the neat history of this little town. We visited an old soda fountain, a candy store and a little antique store.
 |
| Ashlyn enjoying her lollypop. :) |
We finished the day by eating supper at Beau Jo's Cafe. It was kind of like a pizza parlor but you had dinner and dessert in one piece of pizza. You would eat the pizza, and the crust you would dip in honey! We had never eaten there before, but a friend recommended it so we decided to try it. It was pretty good!
 |
| Waiting for our pizza. |
I think that is good for one day.
In Him,
Kristin
