Breckenridge - Part 1

We love the mountains.  We love the snow, cooler weather, beautiful scenery, and laid-back lifestyle.  We got married in Estes Park, Colorado and like to visit the state often.  This year we took our longest vacation since Vietnam (when I started this blog!).  We were actually gone even longer than that since we went to Colorado straight from the family reunion in Nebraska.  I think we were gone 18 days total!

I don't have any pictures from the drive by it was basically torturous for everyone involved.  We spent about 10 hours in the car and 13 hours total travel time.  The drive was a bit longer than it should have been because we made a detour to drop off my Grandma after the reunion.  Fortunately, she lives on a farm with lots of trucks and tractors.  Kamden didn't want to leave! We were also lucky that Joe has family that lives outside Denver so we made another long stop there before the final 2 hours up the mountain.  It went as good as could be expected but we aren't ready to do it again anytime soon.

The place we rented was AWESOME.  It was a block of main street right in the center of town.  We wanted to stay walking distance to most things so that the kids didn't have to get in the car for much. 

Anyway... onto the good stuff....

I captured a few fun pictures of Brody playing with Kamden's toys while he was sleeping.  Brody changed SO MUCH while we were there.  He went from just (kind of) army crawling to full on crawling, sitting from laying, pulling up and occasionally cruising along furniture.  It was crazy.

The first few days were just spent getting the kids back into a normal sleep routine and settling into the house.  We were walking distance to a great playground at the local elementary school and the hot tub was a huge hit for Kamden.  Although, he corrected me that is actually a "warm tub."

After a couple days in town, we drove back down the mountain about 30 minutes to Silver Plume.  This is were we caught the Georgetown Loop Train.  This was awesome.  It was a roundtrip ride that lasted about an hour.  You can make it longer with a mine tour but we figured the kids weren't ready for that. 

The next day we walked around town and took the free gondola up to the base of the mountain.  There were a lot of summer activities up there but not much for little kids.  Kamden really liked the ride though!

More to come!