We just got back!

We just spent a week camping outside of beautiful Salida Colorado. Some of the things we were able to do during our visit were white water rafting, ziplines, soaking in the hot springs swimming pool, visiting down town, playing at the parks, hanging out at the Royal Gorge, and we stopped by the Albuquerque Zoo on our way home. This is a view from our campsite it just got finished raining and I got this great picture of the clouds rolling over the mountains.

We went through the Independent Whitewater Rafting Company to go rafting on the Arkansas River. This was my third time and the boys second. We rafted through Browns Canyon which had class III-IV rapids, due to all of the snow this winter the water was running really high for this time of year. This year we ended up in the raft with the guide who did all of the rowing, in the beginning I was really disappointed because I thought it was not going to be as much fun as the previous years but after realizing how fast the water was going, and how great our guide was we turned out to be really lucky. The guide joked with us and pointed out lots of landmarks and gave us names for all of the cool looking rocks (pink panther, tombstone, and elephant rock). At one point throughout the day one of the rafts in our group flipped over while going through a big rapid, everybody was o.k. but I got to go in the newly recovered raft and help the guide travel down the river while we picked up her overboard crew. You might be wondering where Willie is in the pic., well he hurt is back and then reaggrivated it during the week (poor Willie)!

During our stay we visited the worlds highest suspension bridge at the Royal Gorge. The boys got to ride in the aerial tram, walk across the bridge, watch and gun show, and check out the animals at the wildlife park. Did I mention how hot it was but we still had fun. I forgot about Willies selected fear of heighst and now I know where Jordan gets it, the two of them were o.k. on bridge just as long as we kept walking fast and did not stop.

Some other things we did were ziplining at Captain Zipline tours. This was so much fun and was not as scary as I thought it would be. Here is a pic. of me in my gear and another of me on the zipline.







We did lots of soaking in the Salida Hot Springs swimming pool, which is always fun. This year I taught Jordan how to jump of the diving board, and this is where he hung out the entire time. Nick had lots of fun he only bit a hole in one pair of floaties, lol.