Quickie

Enjoying some lunch on our walk

Bunny ears

Same waterfall from the Coors beer commercials

Even after no shower and a long day in the car...I still have a smile left in me

With the weather being as unpredictable as it has been Ziff and I decided last minute to quickly pack up and go camping. While he was working I gathered everything and prepped all the food and when he got home he loaded everything into the car. There was no time to spare. When everything was loaded we made a quick stop at the store and then we were on our way. It was quickly getting dark but we knew we had just enough time to get there and put up our tent. When we got there and started putting up our tent it started unexpectedly raining. We hurried as fast as we could to put it up but the rain just got heavier and heavier so Lilly and I hid in the tent while Ziff started making some dinner. Lilly was content in the tent crawling over everything and bouncing on and off of the air mattress. We just let her play until she collapsed from being tired which was around 11. I am sure she was very happy with her freedom. Because we put up our tent so quickly the rainfly wasn't on right and rain was getting inside so we huddled in the middle and waited out the rain...it was about and hour or so, but it felt like so much longer. Lilly woke us up bright and early at 6:30 and we were ready to get our day started. Lilly busied herself with collecting rocks. Big ones, little ones, shiny ones, and dirty ones. She didn't care as long as it was a rock. She would show me the rock and then she would walk over to daddy and show him the rock. Finally he told her to make a pile of her rocks on the tailgate...and so that's exactly what she did every rock she found she put in the tailgate...and then moved to making piles in the tent. After cleaning up camp we went for a LONG drive we drove all the way to Steamboat Springs to see fish creek falls. We checked out campsites along the way to decide which ones were future choices. Lilly did fantastic sleeping most of the way, and when she wasn't sleeping she was singing or looking out the window. By the time we got to steamboat springs it would be just our luck that the weather started turning sour again, so after checking out the falls we started heading home. On our way, we got pulled over...darn Ziff and his speeding. We were only going 6 over but for those of you that know about any other summer trips we have taken you would know that getting bad weather and pulled over is all just part of the trips we have accepted. Thankfully the police women was kind enough to let us go with a warning, which with Ziff's record is a miracle, he is very close to loosing his license. We stopped for some dinner in walden at a place that the police women reccomended and Lilly spent her time waiting for her food making friends like her grandpa Reed taught her to. :-) we ate dinner and were on our way again. 30 min from home we were stuck in a bit of traffic due to a horrible accident and while we were waiting sounds from the back seat were arising and Ziff and I spent the rest of the wait laughing about how Lilly and beans do not make for a quiet ride. What's even better is she would laugh after she would...pass the gas lol she is so darn funny. We made it home safely and went right to bed. We were all tired from our quick but very fun trip.

The river by our campsite

"The sleeping elephant" (can you see it?)

When we woke up there were a ton of rafters going by

Our campsite

Lilly making her piles of rocks