Fun times in Colorado

Shaun and I got back last night from our 2 week Colorado vacation. The first week we spent with his parents, sister & brother-in-law, and friends from church. We stayed near Durango a couple of nights and rode the Narrow Gauge Durango-Silverton train. We went fourwheeling one day around our campsite and then decided to pack up and move to Lake City. We were able to drive our fourwheelers right out of the campsite, instead of trailoring them to the trails. We even did an overnight fourwheeling trip and stayed in Eureka, outside of Silverton. We got rained and hailed on a couple of the afternoons and it was pretty miserable at times. The rest of the group left early Friday morning and Shaun and I piddled around waiting for my family to get to Taylor Resevoir on Saturday afternoon.

We stayed in Gunnison overnight and then headed for Taylor Resevoir on Saturday. We spent the next week with my family and numerous family friends. I think there was a total of 36 people, including 12 kiddos, for most of the week. We had 16 vehicles, including 9 MI51 (military jeeps), 3 fourwheelers, 1 Gator-like vehicle, 1 jeep Cherokee, 1 Wrangler, and a TomCar (an Israeli vehicle). We were quite the parade at times. A couple of highlights from this week were our rafting experience, running into our neighbors, Don & Bonnie Kaufman, on top of a mountain, and helping 2 women from Wichita down the mountain after one of their ATV's went down the mountain.

Some of the trails/passes we went on the last 2 weeks were: Cinammon Pass, Alpine Loop, Cross Mountain, Slaughter House Gulch, Tincup Pass, Taylor Pass, Hancock, Napolean, St. Elmo, Italian Creek, Spring Creek, Lottis Creek, Tellurium Creek, and Lily Pond.

Shaun and I also celebrated our 1st anniversary in Colorado! We figured at least every 2 years we'll get to take a trip for our anniversary- how exciting!