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Spring Break Trip to Colorado

This year for spring break we went to Grand Lake Colorado with the Reagens for 4 days.

We stopped in Denver for pizza with Andrew.
Some of us.
The view of Lake Granby from our townhome.
Cam eating leftover pizza.

Our first day there we went for a hike at Adams Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Elliot and Cam
Hope, Lucia, Susan and Rose
Rose enjoyed some climbing.
The hot tub.

On day 2 we went tubing at the Frasier Tubing Hill.

Susan and Rob
Windy Family Photo. It got really windy toward the end. Luckily we were about ready to leave by this point.
After tubing we walked about the Winter Park ski village.
Pretty mountain view.
Snowshoeing.

On day 3 we went for another hike, this time along the Colorado River Trail in RMNP.

Crossing the Colorado River
Elliot
Toward the end the snow was less packed and we found ourselves falling through the snow a lot. This is how we knew it was time to turn around. For most of the hike the snow was packed and we could walk comfortably.
This is where we ate a snack before turning around.

On day 4 we rented cross country skis and the shop recommended we drive to where Trail Ridge Road is closed in RMNP and ski on the road. It was awesome. The weather was grat. The views were good. The girls picked it up without a problem. It was awesome to be on the road that is so busy in the summer, but we literally only saw one other person who was out snowshoeing.

Getting started. You can see Rose and Lucia is way up ahead.
Lucia, Rose and Hope
Nate, Erin, Cam and Elliot
In the evening we played games.
Our drive out of the mountains was beautiful.

Our drive home did not go so well. There was a blizzard in Eastern Nebraska and I-80 was closed across the entire state. In this picture we are in a gas station in Western Nebraska trying to figure out what to do with our lives. We were going to drive the whole way home on Wednesday, but we ended up spending the night in North Platte on Wednesday and finishing the drive on Thursday.

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