Short Trip to Colorado

On Wednesday, we finally got out of town to go see my mom for her birthday. Kaleb had to work so he stayed here and just me and the three kiddos endured the five hour drive to the Springs. It was a pretty fun time, and especially nice since my sister, Jessie, and her son, Lucas, were visiting from Florida! Alan and Heather went too for the week so it was like a mini-reunion. Only one missing was my little brother, Buzz (Adam), who couldn't get off of work, and his 2 year old son, Jacob from Tampa, Florida. We missed you Buzz and Jacob!!! Here are some pictures of our visit. Unfortunately, I got lazy and the only pics I took were when my sister and I took the three oldest boys to Royal Gorge, which was AWESOME!!!!! Hopefully somebody will send me some other pics to post too!!

Jessie and Luke in the the little cage train going down to the bottom of the gorge, all 1500+ feet!

The view from the top of the incline going down to the bottom.

At the bottom of the gorge there is a walkway where you can just watch the river and look up at the gorge. There were also several rafters that day going down the river. Alan, Heather, and Jessie were some of them that day. Earlier that morning they took a couple hours raft trip down the river.

Abe going back up the stairs to go back up on the incline train

Cyrus on the way back up the incline in the little train just taking in the beautiful view.

Jessie and the boys going against the VERY strong winds on the bridge across the gorge. The bridge is a suspension bridge so when it's windy like it was on that day the bridge sways. You can also see the bottom of the gorge through the wooden slats (not very comforting!!). By the time I crossed I was very dizzy and a little nauseous. But it was really cool to look down and see how high up you were!