Speaking of pretty, on my run last Monday as I was finishing up, the clouds started to look super awesome. I noticed it about a half mile from home, and by the time I got home, got Monica outside, and got my phone out for a picture they didn't look quite the same. The clouds were very round and rolly like a bunch of scoops of ice cream. Just imagine this picture looking a little more like that. Pretty cool ,huh?
On Tuesday Monica mowed the lawn, and the kids were really excited to sit and watch!
Tuesday was also a good day for a garden harvest. Brooke loves to take a picture with each item separately. Here she is with the tomatoes.
And just to mix things up here's Winry checking out the zucchini. Also on Tuesday, Winry sang me some songs while the floor was being mopped..
On Wednesday, Monica looked out the window and noticed that one of our aspen trees in the front was falling over, so we called Knot Head and had them come take down the trees. The girls watched them work through the window, and Brooke even tried to help when the tree fell.
Winry was on the brink of having her mind blown at seeing a tree fall. Whoa...
And here's the front of the house now that we don't have any trees out there any more. I'm not sure where we're going to hang our Halloween ghosts this year... :(
Wednesday night the kids were looking through the blog book and Brooke saw herself with tattoos, and so she wanted to put some on again. Here she is, also dressed as Cinderella. While I'm writing this, I'm realizing this is just a vicious cycle, and now there will just be more blog pictures of her with tattoos, creating a feedback loop where she wants to wear them more and more... oh well. Really this is just here because she looks really cute dressed as Cinderella.
We gave Jelly a box to play in this past week. The second I set the box on the floor Jelly climbed in and sat down.
Monica's Mom, Lani, flew in on Thursday night, so on Friday morning we headed to the zoo!! We got to see the penguins getting fed. This was Brooke's request, and was also on the way to the flamingos.
They were being fed behind a rock, and so it was hard for the kids to see, so I put Winry up on my shoulders to watch.
Afterward Brooke rode off into the sunset on a baby hippo!
We also let the kids ride the carousel. Turns out we get some free rides with our membership, so we used them on this trip. I stood by Winry.
And Gram stood by Brooke. Brooke wanted to ride on something that didn't go up and down. Also, while we were riding I kept trying to get Winry to wave or blow a kiss to Monica, but it never quite worked out. We got close one time, she had her hand on her mouth ready to go, but she didn't see Monica. Instead, she ended up seeing some other lady about 20 feet away in a somewhat similar colored shirt, and blew her a kiss instead.
Recently Jelly has been chilling on the top of the couch by Monica and I at night, and I've wanted to play with her and felt sorry there wasn't really a good way. We actually haven't really played with Jelly much at all recently. We used to have cat wand, but it broke, so I looked online and ordered a new one. The kids are in love! Oh, and things occasionally slow down enough for Jelly to paw at something real quick in passing. We've actually had to make them a nap-time only toy, because Winry gets just a little to crazy with them!
Saturday morning (Happy Anniversary, Monica!) we headed off for Glenwood Springs. There was some crazy traffic at an on-ramp about an hour into the drive, but other then that things were pretty smooth sailing. We stopped in Silverthorne at Blue Moon Bakery for lunch, and it was fantastic!
While there we got an incredible peanut butter brownie. It was so good that we stopped again on the way back to get some treats to share with the kids for being so great for Gram while we were gone.
In spite of the traffic, we were still able to make it to Glenwood Springs in time to catch our bus for the hike to Hanging Lake. You have to reserve a spot on a shuttle bus and get a pass to go hike the trail right now. The hike was great, and at the lake there's actually a split in the trail and you can hike up to the source waterfall where the water actually comes out of the rock wall. When we got up there the wall started to come down, but Monica quickly jumped in and put it back up! Good thing we were hiking last Saturday.
After our hike we went to Slope and Hatch which is a taco/hot dog place. Monica got tacos, and I got a hot dog. My hot dog was covered in pulled pork, and was rather incredible! Would I eat there again? Yes, please.
That night at our hotel room we played some games I brought. One of them was bananagrams, and I had to document the fact that I won. We played on the bed, so it's a little hard to follow my board, but I believe everything was legit!!
On Sunday after church we went to Sweet Coloradough for lunch. It was a bagel/donut place. We both got a bagel sandwich, and it was superb. We followed that up with the best donut I've ever had in my life. They were SOOO good! I'm not a foodie, but we hit the food out of the park on this trip.
On Sunday we also transitioned hotels. We got to our hotel before we could check in, so we wandered the streets for a little and stumbled upon the greatest souvenir I've ever seen. We did not buy them. We also found out the train station was on the opposite side of the river from hotel, and there's a walkway straight to it! So we might come back some time and ride the train.
That night for dinner we went to Brava Modern Trattoria, which was a very fine Italian place. That night after dinner we also tried the hot springs pools that were part of our hotel/resort.
It was fun being there at night cause the lights turned on. The fountain even lit up too! However, the one downside is that as soon as the sun started to go down the bugs started to come out, and they were everywhere. We were planning to stay a little later, but the quantity of bugs, and the speed at which they congregated made us reconsider our plan.
This morning we ran around and grabbed souvenirs to bring home and did various other preparations for coming home. Then we headed back to the hot springs to swim in the pool. They even had a "rapids" river to float.
The pool was HUGE too! It was like 400 feet by 100 feet, or something like that. Also, the minerals in the water apparently dried on my camera, so after it got wet the first time the pictures all started to come out blurry. :(
After a little bit of swimming we headed into the spa for our scheduled couples massage! It felt very nice.
On the way home there is this hill you go up where the road seems to be mostly flat, and all of the trees look like they're growing leaning over. It's really fun every time we drive through.
Also, we made it through this whole weekend in Tuna, our 20 year old Corolla! Great swimming Tuna! Thanks for being a wonderful car for the last decade I've owned you! There were a couple slow points driving up the mountains when things got steep, but we made it all the way with no issues! Also, this is our return trip Blue Moon Bakery.
The kids were very happy to see us when we got home, and we were very happy to see them too! After handing out gifts we kept things simple and headed out for dinner. When we got home it was time to put the kids to bed. They had been great for Gram all weekend, but you could tell the strain had been building up on them. They were a wreck while we got them ready for bed! Still, I'm glad to be back home, and I'm sure we'll have a more normal day tomorrow!
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