Lake City- Around town

In August of last year, after a long wait, it was finally time to hit the road for Lake City, Colorado. We had three cars, two sets of grandparents & some excited kids. After an overnight stay in Raton, New Mexico we hit the Rio Grande National Forest in no time at all! 

and within hours, we saw this sign....

We happened upon a beautiful home with plenty of space for our whole gang. It backed up to a lovely creek & a baseball field that was just calling our name evening after evening.

The four of us took a quick & extremely bumpy ride up to an abandoned mining town. We ran into a man up there whose grandfather used to deliver mail from the city up into the mountains. What a neat family history! We explored a bit & realized we could see the Continental Divide from where we were standing. 

Our time "in the city" was filled with wandering around collecting things, eating out, playing miniature golf & eating lots of ice cream. I think I ate it everyday. We sure made use of the patio that looked out over the baseball field & playground.

I cannot even count how many pictures I have of Kyle reading to my kids. He never answers 'no' when they are in the mood for a good read.

Uncle Scott gave rides on the porch & at the park. He was lifting our boys out of a climbing thing & onto the dinosaur. They were having a blast & running back over & over. Soon enough two other children got in line. It reminded me of The Santa Clause movie when Tim Allen is sitting on a bench & slowly a whole line of children were there to tell him what they wanted for Christmas, ha! Scott had to end the game fairly quickly after that happened! 

Here's the fam followed by the bigger fam! 

Here is evidence of that delicious ice cream for the San Juan Soda Shop. He ate it almost every day too! Gaga decided to join him for a ride another afternoon. 

 It's funny how something so simple can be the highlight of our trip. The baseball field offered the opportunity to make some special memories with the whole bunch! Bob started with throwing the ball to Owen & Anson. There ended up being more than a few games with nearly everyone taking a turn at bat. There are quite a few videos to document the best of the best : )

The field offered plenty of space to fly a kite with Uncle Kyle & at night time, Galileo, I mean Uncle Scott led us out to the 3rd baseline to view the Milky Way. Boy was that incredible!

It seemed like it would be such a long trip but it went by quickly & soon we were on our way home. The kids LOVED the hotel! Last time we stayed in one all together was in 2014 & Charlotte called it a 'hotelf'. We just might call it that forever. 

What a trip! We got home & started school 36 hours later! We were refreshed & exhausted all at the same time. That means it was a great trip : )