Thursday, July 10, 2008

Steamboat

We spent 10 days in Colorado visiting my parents. We fly standby and had a 6 hour layover in SLC. So, we took the free Temple Square shuttle and met my cousin there. I was in desperate need of a haircut and the girl has skills. I felt kind of silly wetting my hair in the visitor center bathroom when the sister missionaries greeted me with dry hair, then wet hair, but oh well.
Jake had fun crawling around temple square.
Finally we made it to Steamboat and let the games begin. Bike riding, tubing the Yampa river, watching the ski jumping, walking, hiking--
I love spending all day outdoors here.


My brother and sister in law drove over from Utah to spend the 4th with us. Their baby, Ellie, is 2 months younger than Jake and such a cutie! Thanks for coming you guys, it was super fun.
Lastly we drove through Rocky Mountain National Forest to Estes Park and stayed the night there. Lots of elk, deer, and other wildlife. Also reached 12,800 feet where we all had some level of altitude sickness (headaches, nausea, vomiting) which all resolved when we came back down.
Eli sat in on one of my dad's sales appointments and now plan's to move to here to begin his own sales career. I knew he would fall in love with Steamboat in the summertime. It is so fun here. I highly recommend it.

5 comments:

Karen said...

Tell your parents I'm coming to visit. It sounds like a great place. Little Jake is such a cutie and you guys look great. Hope everything is well.

The Talbot Family said...

How fun! I am totally jealous. Ian and I need to get careers like you guys so we can start travelling more. I hope that we can get together soon. Maybe Labor Day???? Or we may have to try to schedule something in October. I don't know, I just want to hang out again.

Emma said...

What a fun vacation! Now let's see the new do!

Anonymous said...

It looks like you guys had lots of fun! I wish Joey had a better job where he more days off than just 1 or 2 a week! Your little guy is growing so fast. He's a little cutie :)

Camille said...

Oh, I LOVE that picture of Jake with the temple reflection. Well done! Looks like you guys had fun!