Memorial Day Fun!

Summer is Dan's busy season. I hardly see him and the kids are home all day. So when Dan and our friends the Bennetts had a free weekend we jumped at the chance for a fun getaway. At that point it had been too cold and wet to camp so we rented a cabin up in Florissant, CO!

We loaded up our cars and pups and headed up into the mountains.

True to the weather we'd been having in the Springs, we were immediately met with rain and hail!

So the kids got to playing some games inside

When it cleared up we went out on the Bennett's 4 wheelers. I even drove one! :)

We cooked up some burgers and hot dogs and then enjoyed the hot tub!

The next day we visited the Florissant fossil beds. I thought it was a dinosaur fossil place, but it's actually petrified wood and other creatures that left their imprint on the rocks. 

Here's Alex in front of one of the only known petrified redwood trees. Yup, there were redwood trees in Colorado way back when!

They also had a great activity tent with fun things for the kids to do, like make their own fossil, dig for fossils and search through shale and find imprints.

Then it was back to the cabin for more 4 wheeling, pizza eating, game playing, exploring, s'more making and hot tub swimming!

S'mores ended up being indoors since it started raining again and the wood was all wet anyways.

We're glad to have such good friends. We had a great time and it was a great kick off to summer! Here's a link to the cabin with some more pics! http://www.reddoorvacationrentals.com/vacation-rental-home.asp?PageDataID=70380