Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Colorado

We headed out to Colorado for the first time in both of our lives. Wait in all 5 of our lives. It was a whirlwind trip. We left on Sunday, October 3rd to Boulder and returned on Tuesday October 5th. Her appt was for that Monday! Charlotte and Jack were awesome driving all that way!!! But Kate....oh man....it was hard. But we did it!


Anywho, Charlotte was approved for a study to see if her left ear can handle a cochlear implant. It was just a bunch of tests that was conducted and they took several weeks to analyze it. We actually just received the data a couple weeks ago. And it was inconclusive. No data saying it would be good or bad to get it. Crazy. Our trip was paid for by their study so it was good to get the information no matter what.




We've never been to Wyoming? Have you? Oh man. NO OFFENSE. But HOLY COW. It was pretty boring. And I've traveled from Utah to Oregon many times and it was gorgeous compared to that drive. Colorado was beautiful. It was fun to see what it was like.


On the drive there, we stopped at the Little America in Wyoming (closest to Utah) and of course had to stop at the same place on the way back. The kids loved it. Thought the playground was fun!!




We didn't have that much time to go and do touristy things but we did go down a couple of streets where it's just pedestrians. Whatever they're called. It was fun. I seriously never have seen so many (stereotyping here...) tree hugger like and naturalist people. And I'm from Oregon. ha ha ha ha. There were some fun things for the kids to see and they had a great time playing on all these things!








The kids had THE best time at the hotel! They think it's so fun to go the "house". ha ha. Charlotte made a great friend there. The lady that puts the breakfast out in the morning. On the 2nd day, Charlotte wanted to put all the dirty table cloths in the dirty laundry and put new ones out.

6 comments:

Rachel said...

what part of colorado? those animals look familiar...but then maybe all of colorado has those :)
Love your christmas Tree. Love that you keep up on your blog! i appreciate it!

David and Amy said...

Haha...so true about Wyoming! We drove through it when we moved to Connecticut (we skipped the Little America though and that looks like it was a pretty fun place)!

Crystal said...

cool family pics! Wow 3 kids in a car for hours. you guys are brave. p.s. pringles = yum

Lacy@uphillandsmiling said...

It's so fun to stay in hotels with your kids! :) It looks like you guys had fun... Charlotte is so brave, she looks so cute in that picture with all the sensor things on her... still smiling.

Dionne said...

Oh, Boulder -- seeing those pics made us feel a bit homesick:) Boulder itself is often called ??square miles surrounded by reality (can't remember the #).

We made that drive through WY many times and we know exactly what you mean.

Jen said...

A quick trip, but it looks like you had fun!! I love that Charlotte made friends with the breakfast lady! Too dang cute!