Daaar the Visitor

Darcy came Saturday afternoon to come stay with us for a few days. We had a total blast with her here. Asher fell in love with her and the girls loved playing and talking with her. As soon as she got here we loaded everyone up and headed down to downtown to help celebrate "tour de fat". Everyone dresses up like it's Halloween and rides around on their bikes in celebration of the beer that's brewed here in Ft. Collins called Fat Tire. It's really big especially with CSU here. It was pretty crazy but fun to see what people were dressed up as. We ate dinner at a pizza place and my head moon-landed with the gorilla man's mohawk sitting behind me. We then got cookies and played in the water at the oak street plaza.

I think this is when Asher fell in love with "Daaar" cause she played swords with him while we waited FOREVER for our pizza.

Cecily was starving and I showed her the honey. Big mistake. She ended up eating it with everything, even her chicken nuggets, and just started using her licked finger to put honey on.

Sunday we spent at Rocky Mountain National Park. To get there you have to go through Estes Park and it was CR-A-ZY! The line for Subway was out the door so we went to a little deli and it took us an hour to get lunch. The Stanley Mansion from the Shining is in Estes Park. We found it by accident and it was pretty cool.

Once we got in we had a picnic then went and found a little stream to play in. Yep, that means Asher got naked.

We took a one way drive up to the top of one of the mountains. It was a gorgeous drive. We stopped and played in another stream. The water tasted SOOOOO fresh and wonderful.

Then we met this big guy...

The open part way down in the valley is where we picnicked.

Up on the top.

On our way down the mountain we were stuck in traffic. It took 30 minutes to move a mile. We were joking that there better be a heard of buffalo holding us up cause we figured someone had stopped to take a picture and was holding everyone up. Well, it wasn't a heard of buffalo but I counted 22 Elk. Totally worth the wait and holding up the line a little longer so we could get our picture. (This is only a section of the group)

Then back in Estes Park we ran into another heard of 12 Elk.

And then we met the big daddy elk. I totally thought his antlers were going to scratch our car as he walked by.

Monday Darcy treated me to lunch at the bluebird cafe and then we went and hit up all the thrift stores and flea markets. Darcy went and got dinner from Whole Foods and we made little pizzas. Sooooo yummy! It was a nice relaxed day while we worked on school and napped and ate. My favorite kind of vacation.

Darcy's flight was at 6:30am this morning so we left the house at 4:30am to get her there an hour early. She BARELY made her flight cause security took so long. Sorry Darcy! Thanks for coming it was such a blast to have some one-on-one time with you like the good ol' days. And thanks for sharing her with us Nathan!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!