Cliff Dwellings; Colorado Springs

While in Colorado we also visited some Cliff Dwellings outside of Colorado Springs. They were pretty cool and Colton loved exploring them with his flash light.

This may be one of the only photo's that he actually held a smile on our entire trip!

 The Cliff Dwellings were cool, however I do not think they were "real". All of the signs would say things like "Native Americans would cook in something like this" or "they would sleep in a shelter like this". I guess original cliff dwellings date back to something like 500 A.D and i'm pretty sure they wouldn't let the public play around in those.

Again, we could not have asked for better weather while on vacation. We will be going back to Colorado next September for my friends wedding. We can't wait, we are already planning to spend a few extra days and make another vacation out of it!

Colton's Dump Truck

Colton's masterpiece!

Colton's drawing are typically squiggly lines the he says is a "map" or a cyclops "happy face". He brought this to me the other day and said "look mommy, i drew a dump truck". His dump truck is so precious and he was so proud of it.

Rocky Mountain National Park; Colorado

We drove through Rocky Mountain National Park two different days.
Below are some of my favorite pictures from this beautiful park.

On our second trip to the park we took "Old Falls River Road". It was a one way dirt road that went all the way to the top of the mountains. 9 miles with no guard rails!! It was beautiful, but I was on edge the entire drive!



We also saw Elk on our second drive.



Lots of Elk!



Oh yeah, and these little guys too.




They enjoyed the apple we gave them.



On day one of visiting the park we entered from Grand Lake, on our second day of visiting the park we entered from Estes Park. A very cute little town.



This picture was taken at the top of the mountain. When we entered the park it was 58 degrees, at the top of the mountain it was 41 degrees, burrrrr.



Our tour guides for day one!

So pretty!

Rocky Mountain National Park was just so beautiful and large. We would like to go back in the warmer months to camp here. We talked about camping here this visit, however it gets below freezing at night. We enjoy camping, but not that much.

Seven Falls; Colorado Springs.

We visited Seven Falls in Colorado Springs. It was beautiful!

Next to the Falls, 224 steps lead you to the top.

Colton was a bit scared of the steps, so Casey got his workout for the day!



The steps were SOOO steep. We actually made it only half way up. It was too scary to carry Colton to the top. I was getting nervous we wouldn't be able to get down.





So instead we took the in-mountain elevator up 14 stores to the "Eagles Nest" that overlooked the falls. So pretty!



We were happy to have Colton in our pictures, however he thought it was funny to stick his tongue out in almost all of them! Silly boy! Seven Falls was fun and very pretty.

Royal Gorge;Canon City, Colorado

While in Colorado we visited Royal Gorge Bridge! The view was so pretty but it was so scary. I'm not a fan of heights, especially when on one of the largest suspension bridges in the world, were you can see through the cracks to the BOTTOM and the bridge SWAYS!

The Royal Gorge bridge hangs 955 feet above the Arkansas River. To put that into perspective, a football field is 360 feet long.  Se we were standing almost 2 football fields long! Its hard to see in this picture, but there is actually a car driving across this bridge, directly in the middle of the bridge. That's how big and massive this gorge is!

It was pretty scary!

Colton had no fear on the bridge. Crazy kid!

We thought this was a pretty funny sign. I guess people have actually tried this? Oh do you see the sky coaster in the back ground? You can actually swing over the gorge on this sky coaster. Umm... no thank you!

It was such a pretty day and thankfully not to windy!

It's a loooong way down!



C3 had to represent the 3 states we have lived in. Oklahoma!



South Carolina!



and Florida!



Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs.



Today C3 went to Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, CO.  It was beautiful and the weather was perfect!



Garden of the Gods is a free park. We spent a few hours just walking around exploring the park. 

We all has a blast exploring the grounds!

See the man at the top of the rocks! Crazy! There were rock climbers all over the place!

Garden of the Gods was so cool. We do not see views like this in Oklahoma. We are loving our vacation in Colorado and spending time with Shanna and Tyler. Many more pictures to follow. We don't want to go home.