Day 3 of our Trip Across the Country

Day 3 was SO fun! All play and no traveling, and boy were we glad we had this day. Day four is a l..o...n...g...day. Anyway, we woke up and had a wonderful breakfast of eggs, bacon and monkey bread (it's like cinnamon rolls on steroids), thanks to Ken and Amy, then we packed lunches and loaded in the car. Our first stop was Seven Falls. It was a bit cold, but the sun was warm.
Seven falls is a series of waterfalls that you see from a series of really long steep stair cases. I think we did over 500 stairs that day. This is Ken and Amy's family headed up the stairs.

All of us at the top of one of the view points. The falls were frozen, so they weren't real spectacular from far away, but up close they were really neat because you could see the water running underneath.

Jill, Tanner, and Kyler. Jill did so good, she climbed almost all those stairs all by herself.

After we enjoyed a quick lunch in the sun by the falls, we loaded up in the car again and headed to Garden of the Gods. It's like a mini Moab in Colorado Springs. This is there version of balancing rock. We got out and let the kids run around, Kyler loved every minute of it. He was running so fast, Brian was having a hard time holding on to him.

We walked around the park, and the kids were all so good. There was this one rock that had a small crevas that a small child could walk all the way through. Tanner and Jill were doing it so Kyler decided he wanted to try, I helped him as far as I could go, and Brian reached for him as far as he could from the other side, but that still left a few steps he'd have to do on his own. He started toward Brian but then got scared and I thought for sure he was going to get stuck, but he finally grabbed Brian and everything was ok. Needless to say we were both too busy to get a picture :)

We came home tired and hungry. Kyler was sporting a fever again...103, so I fed him early and put him down to bed. He's still had the fever off and on (I'm typing this on day 5), but we've kept the motrin handy, and he's been ok...teething maybe??? who knows. Then we had a wonderful dinner, Salad, fruit smoothies, and homemade pizza...with the best pizza dough ever :) We shipped the rest of the kids off to bed, and stayed up laughing at Kens stories. It was a great day. We so would have loved to spend more time with the Pollary family. They were so wonderful to us we were sad to leave. Hopefully our paths will meet again soon.

This was a really fun day. It was nice to get out and just play. It was fun to see the water behind the ice falls. There were some fun formations of ice. It is too bad the pictures don't do justice to the beauty...I guess pictures rarely do. Garden of the Gods was also fun. It seemed out of place. I am used to state parks like this being somewhat secluded. This one, however, was right in the middle of suburbs. I wouldn't mind living in a neighborhood next to this park.--Brian