This is going to be a long one! We dedicated the first week of May to a vacation and scouting trip to our future Colorado home. We packed up the boys (and Nana and Grandad), drove to Cincinnati, parked and took the shuttle bus to the airport, rode a tram to the terminal, flew to Denver, rode a tram to our luggage, rode a shuttle bus to the car rental location, rented our car and drove to Beulah (with a grocery store stop on the way), and at last found our rental house for the week and settled in. It was a LONG day with a 2 hour time change to boot, but the boys were great. Of course the various transportation modes throughout the day were a huge hit, because really nothing is better than airplanes, trams, and buses. The time change was a bit rough because of course the boys thought that 4 AM made perfect sense to wake up (despite not getting to bed until 8 PM the previous night), but we gradually got the wake up time to move back as the week went on. It was a bit chilly and rainy our first few days, so we took care of most of our business (looking at rental homes, opening up a bank account, scouting the different areas of the city) and made several fires to keep warm in the evening. The boys of course loved that. We had to have fun on our trip too, so we took a day trip to Canon City and hiked along the Tunnel Drive Trail one morning (named for the tunnels carved in the rock that we hike through). The Royal Gorge Railroad takes trains through the gorge that Tunnel Drive trail follows, so we got to watch for the train as we hiked. The boys can't wait to ride it for themselves one day! On Friday we checked out the Beulah Valley Mountain Park that was just up the road from our rental house. It was a beautiful place and we spent the afternoon hiking, playing in the creek, and finally cooking out at a picnic site. The boys had a blast in the water especially. We will definitely be back for more play here, and the toddler hikes that are hosted here monthly. Saturday we decided to hike in Lake Pueblo State Park, but choosing a trail was a bit daunting due to the insane number of choices available. The one we chose turned out to be a good one, with the boys hiking the beginning and end but getting carried for the steeper middle sections. Ezra is in LOVE with his backpack and insists on wearing it pretty much everywhere right now (including in the house) so Micah has to join in the fun too of course. I mean, they are really cute (the boys and the backpacks, hehe). We decided that I could easily just bring the boys to this park in the future, and settle down with a book while they play with the rocks and dirt all day, because that's what they really wanted to do, lol. Our final day in Colorado we decided to cram in as much as we could with visits to the Pueblo Zoo, Bishop's Castle, and a hike around Lake Isabel. It was an exciting and exhausting day and the boys were troopers! They are very excited to move and were quite reluctant to go back to Ohio ("Why can't we just stay?"). Monday, however, brought the same LONG travel day home with all of our various modes of transportation. And if you want to hear about all the ways we traveled to get home again, just ask Ezra. He loves to tell anyone who will listen about all the ways we traveled; in fact, I'm pretty sure that's what he remembers best from the trip, lol. We are happy to report that we have found a house to rent starting in July and are really excited for this next chapter!
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5/19/2019 02:00:46 pm
What a long, hard trip. But it was also filled with so much fun and such great pictures! Love it!
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