Memorial Day Weekend!

Jordin, P-cakes and I wanted to make the most of our longer weekend. We decided that we could use a little fresh air and we went to Montrose for the weekend. We got there late Thursday night and then played around with the family on Friday. On Saturday we went on a hike. The trail is called curecanti. (I don't actually know if that is spelled right.) It was such a great time! We weren't sure about going because it's sometimes hard to drive a long way with P-cakes, who is not a huge fan of the car seat, but we are so glad we went!

This is Jordin and P-cakes walking down the trail on Curecanti. She loves to go on hikes! I tried to get a pic of her with her hands in the air, but this one kind of shows it. She giggles the whole way!

Family pic! You can't see it very well, but there is a RAGING river behind us.  The hike follows the water the whole way and because of all this rain it was SO full!

See? I told you.

This is a bridge that goes over the river, which is good because we would have drowned trying to cross it. :)

On the way, we took a break to play in the water.

It was SO cold!

This is us snacking a bit. P-Cakes LOVES drinking from camelbak's.

P-cakes thinks that if anyone is eating food, she has claim to it.

She makes this look good!

This is on the way out of the canyon, P-cakes fell completely asleep. I can't imagine she was comfortable, but she slept for an hour like that. Oh, to be little and super flexible!

I had to get a shot from the back. (Of P-cakes!) Shw was buckled around the waist but with the way she was sleeping, it looks like she was trying to get out!

Okay, this is the reason we had to go on hikes. Jordin and I went to Romano's Macaroni Grill last Tuesday and got some dessert: the Lemon Passion Cake. It was amazing! So, when we were in CO I cornered Jody into helping me make this. It was SO SO good!

 We took a break from our adventures to relax a little on Sunday and have a picnic with Jody's side of the family. Then on Monday, we knew we had to take advantage because we had to leave later that day. We decided to do another hike. We drove to Ouray and did the trail called Upper Cascade Falls. It was SO hard! It was the complete opposite of Curecanti which was down then back up. This one was UP UP UP then down.

Here's Jordin and P-cakes takin' a breather.

This was FINALLY when we were done with the switch backs. We go along a rock wall for a ways before you go to the other side of the mountain and back into the falls. Jordin saw this wicked cool tree.

 Once we got around the mountain we came across A LOT of snow. A LOT. It covered the trail so much that we had to trail blaze our own path to get across. I didn't love it. :) A little too crazy for me.

This is when we were passed all the snow. Happy!

Here's the falls!! We made it!

It was cool, but SO cold! Look at how Jordin is holding his freezing hands trying to warm them up!

 What you didn't see in these pictures is how we went to Mouse's Chocolates after and ate delicious truffles and shakes! It was a great weekend. We didn't want to go home, but alas work needs to be done. But what fun memories. I told Jody and Daren as we were leaving "It's not a good trip to Colorado without some crazy hiking adventure." I am rarely let down. :)