Blogging for Bob: November 2012

Rocky Mountain National Park Round 2 - Revenge of the Francoms

The Francoms came up for a couple of days and we decided to go up to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park.

Elizabella and Jenna

Yours truly (I look chubby) I think either William or McKay took this picture. They did a pretty good job I think.

The kids really had fun climbing around on the rocks and trying to cross the stream (Ron likes to fall in the water, ha ha)

I love Jenna's expression here.

McKay, Elizabella, and Lydia crossing the river with Ron and Mia in the background.

Wendy really wanted me to post this picture of her. She made me promise.

The road going up the mountains was closed so we weren't able to go all the way up, and there was a fire over by bear lake so we couldn't go over that way so we were kinda limited in where we could go.

The closed road.

The animals were crazy up here, they would come right up to you (they were looking for handouts)

Rocky Mountain National Park

A little after we moved here to Colorado we decided to go to Rocky Mountain National Park. I don't remember what the name of the road is, but we drove up to 12,000+ ft up to the tundra. It as pretty neat except we didn't really expect it to be as cold as it was so we didn't spend too much time outside.

It was really pretty up there

It was a nice time to be up there as the leaves were changing colors.

We stopped at the Alluvial Fan and the kids had a lot of fun playing near the water (throwing rocks and eating sand, that sort of thing.)

The extended stay

We stayed at an extended stay for a week while we looked for a place to rent. We were really glad to have leave there as it was quite the challenge to keep the children quiet.