Fun in “Colorful Colorado”
At least that's what the sign said on the way into the state…
On Thursday, July 27th, the boys and I took a trip to McPhee Reservoir near Dolores, Colorado. We met my buddy from Arizona (Myke) and his two children, Zoe and Nolan for a long weekend of fun. Fun included fishing, boating in rubber rafts, riding bikes, eating marshmallows and my favorite: Checking out the "cliff dweller" Indian ruins at Mesa Verde. Did you know there are 600+ cliff ruins on that mesa? It boggles the mind when you are actually there staring down into the canyons full of all the alcoves that house the ruins. Then, there are THOUSANDS of other sites on top of the mesa… and all were strangely vacated about 800 years ago.
As you can see by the pictures, we had lots of fun… and lots of rain. The last night we were there, it rained about an inch and a half on us… not to mention the wind and the marble sized hail that broke up our game of campsite baseball! We all retired to our camp trailer to watch Napoleon Dynamite for the 78th time. On the way home we passed by Moab and the Arches National Monument in Utah. Here's a photo of "Wilson's Arch"… in panorama baby!
Check out this hysterical video of Ethan taking a dip in the lake:
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The morning we left for home we all looked like this:
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