Hi all! We spent our first week of summer in COLORADO!!! Early Sunday morning (7am) we were in the air. When we landed we headed to see Auntie Mari, Uncle Josh, Avery and Carter!
That afternoon we headed to John and Jenny’s house, where we stayed all week. We had a great dinner and watched the Tony’s. Maya and Jenny got busy with a sewing project too! And of course, we all snuggled with their sweet dog, Hazel.
On Monday morning we headed down to Manitou Springs. Our first stop was an old school arcade.
Then it was time to head to lunch and the Garden of the Gods.
We went on an hour long horseback ride through the Garden of the Gods. It was beautiful!! Maya’s horse was named Fireball, Callie’s was named Jett, mine was named Clyde, and Chris’ was Pete.
Then it was time for ice cream- my lavender honey sherbet matched my pants!
That evening we relaxed at John and Jenny’s and had tacos for dinner.
On Tuesday morning Chris headed to the mountains for some fishing while the girls and I headed to babysit Carter for the morning! He is the cutest, smiliest baby!
Later that afternoon Maya and I walked up to the Denver Nature and Science Museum. There were lots of cool dinosaur exhibits. Maya chose a dinosaur souvenir named Brick (after soliciting people to vote for the name between France, Brick, and Peapod).
That night John got tickets for the girls, Jenny and me got to go see “& Juliet” at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts! It was SO fun.
Wednesday was Water World day! It was hot and sunny and the perfect day ti go on water slides and hang out in the wave pool and under our shady cabana.
That night we went out for dinner at a fun spot John recommended. Jenny and Maya played Bingo (where they had to find a variety of things around the place) and John and Chris ordered gigantic breakfast burritos.
Later it was more snuggles for Hazel and the completion of the sewing project!
By Thursday we were all pretty tired, so we took it easy that morning and went to get brunch near J&J’s house. Then Margie arrived with her dog Blue!
That afternoon we headed out to the Titanic Immersive Experience. It was so interesting!
We relaxed at the house the rest of the evening. Maya created an digital art piece called “John with Bangs in a Desert” that was pretty entertaining.
On Friday morning we headed up to Idaho Springs and had a great time shopping on their adorable main street (called Miner’s Street, as it was an old Gold Mining town).
Margie got us matching friendship bracelets and then we found a store called Margie’s Place! We ate at a pizza place and Callie found a little friend named Rocco.
After some rest time we made our way back to see the cousins to round out the trip!
Here are a few little videos we took.
Thanks to John and Jenny for hosting us! We are so grateful to have such a fun place to go to see family and do all sorts of fun vacation-y stuff!
Now it’s time to get regular summer life started.
