Little Levys: CO: First Leg ESTES PARK!

Forgive the few words, but our laptop is on the fritz. Keyboard is not responding...

We began our trip with five nights in Estes Park, staying at the same cabin we rented in January 2014. The view and the town access is unbeatable...

Sunday we had a chill day acclimating to the altitude. We walked into town for ice cream, taffy, and other goodies...

We stopped to dip our toes in the river behind the stores...

And while I hit up the stationary shop, Bekah fell into the water...

After some more shopping fun, we went home, made dinner, and headed into Rocky Mountain National Park. Trail Ridge Road took us HIGH into the mountains...

Bekah had a brawl with a marker. I would say she goes out like this at least 60% of the time...

We came upon a solitary elk...

And a few moments later, we found the herd...

It was SO COOL to hear them bugling...

They caused a HUGE traffic jam wherein a park ranger had to ask people to step away from the animals...

Seeing elk was Bekah's number one request. CHECK!

The next morning we woke EARLY to hike Alberta Falls. Parking was TOUGH in this third most visited national park...on JULY 4th...of the centennial year...but we made it...

The kids were in high spirits until about HERE:

This was the "Family Photo" at the peak of the falls...

There are no more pictures of Bekah on this hike because SHE GOT OVER IT...

But, after lunch, wine, and a nap (which Dada did not break from,) I took the kids to Trout Haven. Let me just put out there that even though I am getting noticeably tougher (hiking, camping, being outside generally as long as the temperature is below 75 degrees,) I yelled like an attack victim when we needed bait hooked or a fish unhooked...)

This was the first of B's TWO fish...

We hopped next door to the rainbow slide. At first, Bekah thought she would slide alone. I HEARD that there were tears when she was forced to actually descend...

The three of us slid down twice together, and then B took a lone shot...

After we cooked dinner and gathered the snacks and chairs, we headed down to the golf greens to set up for fireworks. And the running, chasing, and wrestling began...