Family Road Trip (part 3.5)

Oops, I skipped a day. This one should go between parts 3 and 4, it's our 2nd day camping in the Rockies. Every day we were in Colorado it was sunny and beautiful in the morning, until mid to late afternoon. Then the clouds would start to roll in, and every afternooon/evening it rained.

It rained hard the first 2 nights we camped, so we had to get everything dried in the morning sun.

Since the previous day's hike was SO crowded, we decided to check out a trail right outside our campground. It was a fairly short hike, but quite steep. It took us a while to get to where we stopped. The scenery was gorgeous, and it was very peaceful, because there were hardly any other hikers. I think we all agreed this hike was nicer than the day before.

From here, we were looking down at our campground.

The next 3 are going on the wall!

heading back down

it was on this trail we collected our "rocks from the Rocky Mountains" - yea for free souvenirs!

Here comes the rain again...

Since it rained every evening, we ended up eating dinner out more often than we planned.
This was a cute little place in the busy tourist town of Estes Park.

Family Road Trip (Part 4)

This was my favorite day. We packed up and left for Utah. We decided to take a scenic drive through Rocky Mountain National Park. I'm not exaggerating when I say, it was a highlight of my life!

Here's me eating granola in the Rocky Mountains. Seemed fitting.

First pit stop

I can't even describe the feeling of being up so high.

When we got to the highest elevation, there was a place to park and go climb to the top of the mountain.

Everybody made it up except me! As you can see, we had to put our sweatshirts on, it was SO COLD up there!

It felt like we were on top of the world!

I took SO MANY more pictures. It was so hard to choose.

after coming back down, heading out of Colorado. I loved the contrast here between the mountains and the prairie.

After about 10 hours of driving and admiring some of God's most amazing creation,
we finally arrived in Salt Lake City.
This is where my brother lives. Surrounded by mountains.
This is the skyline. Not a city scape, but this is breathtaking.

Family Road Trip (part 3)

A Day in Rocky Mountain National Park

We took a shuttle to one of the easy hiking trails near the entrance of the park.
It was beautiful, but very heavily populated. This was probably my least favorite part of our time in Colorado, though it was still amazing.

the view from our campground, just outside of RMNP

sunrise from our campground