Rocky Moutain High

We got to spend one wonderful week in Lake City, Colorado this month. Some of you that read this blog have spent a good deal of time there and I hope you enjoy. For those of you who haven't been there, it is a gem of a town. It is at 8,600 feet above sea level and surrounded by five fourteen thousand foot peaks. Hard to match that! Also, there is basically nothing to do. This is not a vacation town for those with ADD; this is a place to sit and relax, and then do it some more. The days were beautiful and the nights were downright cold... that makes for wonderful tent-camping.

The sixteen hour drive seemed imposing but the girls (all of them) did great. We caught one of the most glorious moments on camera...
This is a place where many of the tallest mountains don't even have names - there are just that many peaks! The ridge on the left of this picture composes part of the Continental Divide.
This is the "main drag" of Lake City. It hasn't changed much since the mining days of the late 1800's. I assume they have better ice cream now, though - it's fabulous in fact.
Watching the two older girls play non-stop was by far the highlight. They played in a wooded area almost everyday that they appropriately named the "Clubhouse". They seemed to have a different little project going on every hour or so.
Someone (and it wasn't Lee Ann) let Jennalee buy a sling-shot. Jennalee tried to shoot the millions of chipmunks that snoop around Southwest Colorado, but when that showed itself to be too much of a challenge, she turned her sights towards Barry from Bee Movie. He begrudgingly offered himself up as great target practice and gave us some wonderful laughs.
This is a deer that hung around our campsite. If she looks a little overweight, I am sure that has something to do with the packages of Fig Newtons she consumed from our hands.
Here we are at the Alfred Packer Massacre Site. Jennalee & Lee Ann are reenacting the cannibalistic actions of Lake City's most notorious character.
We all got home safely. All of us except one, that is. The only fatality was this bird we found in the grill of our car when we were unloading. Nobody said vacation was easy!