[2014-colorado]
We woke up promptly at 7 to eat some pan fried granola, play with the neighbors, try to dry out the Chuck Box from its soaking during the dinner cooking from last night, and headed down the road an hour to get to the first cliff dwelling tour of the day: Cliff Palace.
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[2014-colorado]
After a quick breakfast of cereal we went for a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park just outside of the Green Ridge Campground we stayed at. We hiked the East Shore Trail along Shadow Mountain Lake one hour each way 3.2 miles in total. The kids did a great job. They wanted to keep going, but Scott and I decided that we should probably turn around after an hour. Cody started the hike with rock throwing into the lake. He cracked us up when a few feet into the trail it opened into a forest and he said disappointedly, “Well, I can’t throw any rocks in here.”
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