Dancing in the rain

It was raining.

Again.

So Naomi and I played

and Danced in the rain.

Motorcycle Toddler

Yep this is my girl!

She loves her daddy's motorcycle.

Sadly, we have not found it in our hearts to tell her that daddy sold it. 

I can barely believe it myself.

The rest of our trip...

Wewent to the clif dwelling museum.  Naomi had a ball. she crawled all over the dwellings.  She charmed many people and many made remarks on her hat.  If you notice in the pictures she has a gray cat with her. This is "Kitty."  Kitty is her traveling buddy.  Over the course of her life Kitty has traveled many places with her.  Although none so extensive as this trip. Kitty went every where and did everything. She even went potty a few of times. 




























I love the picture where she is showing kitty the tepee.  Although I think Kitty was in time out before she got to look inside.

Then we drove through Garden of the Gods (Naomi was napping)

We also went to the Air Force Academy so Adam could see the chapel.  He was impressed.


On the way home we took a side trip.  Adam had never been to Castle Rock.  Once we found it we ended up off roadin' in my minivan.  we also had to do some muddin.'  The roads had been washed out and  were nothing but mud because of the recent rain they had been getting.   We had  a picnic lunch and then headed home. 

We had a great time. It was really a blessing to get away for a little bit.

Runaway (pt3)

Opps! I forgot to post this picture of our first campground...

We spent a lot of time driving on the second day.  We found a KOA to stay at.  It turned out to be the World's Highest KOA at 10,000 feet.  We used the wilderness camping sights which were back in the Aspen.  This is where Naomi informed me that she would rather go potty in the trees than in a restroom.  Go figure.

We set up camp and then drove through Phantom Canyon on our way to the Royal Gorge. 

Naomi slept through the canyon. 

This is us looking at the bridge and the gorge for free.  I am sorry, but $25 per adult is a bit too much.  So we opted for the free outlook on the side. 

Poor Naomi got sunscreen in her eyes. 

The poor thing was a whimpering mess.  She rode most of the hour back to Cripple Creek with her eyes closed.  When we got there, we stopped to get something to eat.  It was a local's hang out.  When we showed up Naomi just wanted to be held by her daddy. But by the time we left she was entertaining the locals with her newly learned straw wrapper shooting. As well as showing off her dancing and jumping abilities.  

We took the long way back to the car.  Supposedly we had just missed some kind of local festival because there was a sand sculpture.  Here is part of it. ( I could not get the whole thing in the frame and some of it was not quite as "wholesome" as I would prefer.)

That night we headed back to the camp site and Naomi tried roasted marshmallows for the first time.  She was not a big fan.  Then off to bed we went.