Beautiful Colorado

 Over the weekend we were able to go up to Estes Park, CO and Rocky Mountain National Park with Erik's brother Bennett and his family.  They are moving to Missouri and had been in Utah for a few weeks, so we were lucky enough to have them drive through Denver and go on a quick getaway.

I have so many pictures so I won't bore you with details on most of them, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves

 Elsie wasn't too sure about the Moby wrap at first,

 But she changed her mind

 

 Maybe I shouldn't have applied the sunscreen every hour, we all could use a little sun!

 

 At the visitors center in Rock Mtn Natl Park, 12,000+ Feet. We went on a perfect weekend, it rained and was cloudy most of the time, therefore it wasn't too hot.  Poor Elsie has no warm clothes because she's a summer baby, so I had her in the wrap and then had Erik's jacket over her. It was 50 degrees at the top and windy!

 Tried to get a picture of the highest point in the park, it is actually 12,183. Incredible! Tree's stop growing around 11,500, it's awesome being above that

We overheard a lady saying "This is nothing compared to Yellowstone," I couldn't believe my ears, were we in the same place?! I don't know where else you can drive or hike to 12,000 feet. It blew my mind! It was beautiful

 

 We did lots of driving and Vi was determined to get some shut eye, kept her eyes closed like this and kept talking "I'm really tired huh?!"

 They both did a great job staying the night in a hotel

Instead of driving back out of the park through Estes Park and Boulder, we went through Grand Lake (Prettiest lake I've ever seen, definitely staying there ASAP) and Winter Park, it was an incredible drive

 11,307 Ft