Driving to Colorado

July's excitement centered around our second-annual trip to Colorado. We loaded up the dogs, packed the camp gear in the trailer, and hit the road!

You can see in this photo just how excited my boys were about traveling. Dora (Dora, Dora the Explorer) is obscuring our new trailer. Right now the trailer is an open utility trailer but we intend to build an enclosure for our camp gear so we can secure items when we are hiking or otherwise away from the site. We got the trailer because we simply don't have the room to take our camp gear, the dogs, and luggage on a long trip...so we now have a trailer to haul it all!

Last year we stopped at the Capulin Volcano on a whim. This year we whipped past the extinct volcano but snapped a photo and remembered.

Drink time! In case you can't discern from the photo...we had stopped for a break and filled a bowl for the boys and they were simultaneously drinking. They were practicing for a little known Olympic event - synchronized slurping...

On our way to Denver we stopped and spent the night in Colorado Springs, Co so we could visit Garden of the Gods. We took the boys for some hiking and while they enjoyed the extended time out of the car, the visit to the Garden was definitely for us people! I visited G. of the Gods as a child and loved it then too! The name says it all.

This photo is of the same mountain! Can you spot the same climbers in the left photo? We saw the climbers and got pretty excited when we zoomed in on them climbing. Pretty good zoom for a point and shoot camera!

A nice couple offered to take our photo. I'm always a little leery of asking people to take our photo. I'm always a little afraid they'll run with the camera. At least it wouldn't have the same twist as European Vacation if the camera did get stolen...! Ah, that Chevy Chase...funny guy.

I took this photo for Dan. He saw an eagle living in the rocks.