Friday, August 3, 2018

July 16th (Manitou Cliff Dwellings/Pikes Peak/North Pole)

 Here we go first official day in Colorado Springs...we have a full day ahead of us!! Excited little girls!!
 I see the Mountains.

 Colorado land is so different than KS land!!




 This is someone's house on the side of the mountain.

 1st stop on the list!!

Tipee time.

 This place is so amazing in person. It is still mostly in tack after all these years. The girls were excited to go inside.













Time to go through the tiny hole and climb up to the top of the two story building.


 Loving the view from up top!



 Very neat structure to go through.



Oh Ella how I wish you would do your pretty smile for the camera in our family pictures...haha.



Baking oven.

 I love this bench that someone made!! Very Colorado. One day we will have to come back in the winter to use skis or a snowboard!!
 Why does Adelyn have to look so big!!
 We hit the road to Pikes Peak!!




 We are driving up all the way to 14,000 ft!! Oh my!!





 Big Foot crossing!! What???




 Wow these views are amazing just going up the mountain!!

 I could take pictures all day long!!


 It's getting colder the higher we go!!















 We are super high now.


 Look we are above some of the clouds!! So cool!!



 We are headed up to that road.
 Love this one with the clouds.
 Foggy...its getting colder.
 We made it!!



 These views are breath taking!! You can't beat it.



Ella may look happy but she was scared 1/2 to death being up this high.
She was so scared just when we were driving up in the car.
 Adelyn liked being up high but they both got cold and wanted to go into the building to get warm!


 Selfie on Pikes Peak!! So fun!!



 It was a little cloudy out but the views were still pretty awesome!!



 The girls are whinning...time to hit the road back down!!
 Love this picture.
 Going down...you have to be careful though it pretty steep.






 Adelyn spotted a deer as we were driving!
 When you head down the mountain they check your breaks and tell you if you need to cool off or not. Well they told us we need to, which worked out great so we could eat our lunch we packed.


Eating right by the mountain.



 We found a cute little chipmunk!!

 Pretty girl on the rock!!


 Caught Nick off guard...lol.

 After lunch we had to go climb some rocks.








 A nice man offered to take our picture!! So sweet...but I forgot I was some what holding onto Ella and went to get my camera so she fell a little. Poor baby...sorry Ella.





 This lake was so pretty in the middle of the mountain.


Headed to our next stop The North Pole!!
 I am so excited for the girls to go here...I went here when I was a little girl!!

 Wow its been open for 62 years!
 Christmas in JULY!!

 Sky ride!! We got right on...no problem.





Ella gets to drive!!




 This one is just like how the rockin wheeler was at World's of fun. Ella loved it!! And Adelyn as well.
 I love their smiles.

Super fun twisty slide.




 Happy faces on every ride!
Now I sat our on most rides...they all spun...I can't do spinning anymore!!








 This Roller coaster maybe little but I rode it with Ella and it was soooo bumpy!!!
Addie was too big for this one...but Ella loved it.
That smile...oh it is contagious.



 They had real deer!! Wow!


 And if you couldn't tell this place was deader than dead on a Monday...we didn't mind one bit!!

 We waited in the only ride to do the zipline sleigh...it only holds two people so it takes longer to do. But it was soo fun!!









I really feel the Christmas spirit around here.



We even got to see Santa without a line??!!
And it was FREE!!
This maybe our Christmas card this year...haha.






Trying to watch them spin around and around...yuck!!
What a great time at the North Pole...Ella just loved it!! It was more here speed..not any climbing going on that is hard for her.
It is close to 5 time to go get some Mexican food from a place I read on a blog.
Well we barely ate our food at Hacienda...gross gross gross!
Lets go get some more ice cream!! Ha.
Nick took this selfie with Addie on his phone..so sweet.

Nick took this one also...great job honey.
 We loved their ice cream last night so why not again!!

Everything was super yummy again!
Wow what a big fun filled day!! We sure do love this Colorado weather...we are enjoying less humidity for sure!!


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