The Great Outdoors!
Since the girls start school this week, we decided to take one last adventure. Off to the mountains we headed for a night of car camping...the beauty of car camping is you can bring anything and everything. Notice the picnic table, this was gormet car camping compliments of Joel's great grilling abilities.
If you look closely at this picture you can see the pink glow of the setting sun on the rocks. It is called Alpen Glow. We camped outside of Taryall, on the otherside of the pass. It was beautiful up there!
Of course we had marshmellows and smores, what camping adventure would be complete without it? These giant roasting sticks are hand made by Anne's dad!
The next day we thought it would be fun to go tubing down the South Platte river. Without the sun it was a bit chilly...well the water was pretty frigid and my feet went numb!
With the rainfall we have gotten this year it was more white-water tubing than a lazy stroll down the river. Whitewhiter tubing on these tubes was scary! I flipped and got sucked down the middle of the rapids bouncing off rocks until I could grab hold of a rock...next time I do that I need a bigger tub! As you can see, we were pretty worn out after the big river run!