Saturday, September 29, 2018

A Lovely Drive & Hike up the River

We went for a lovely drive the other day, up through Poudre Canyon.
Summer had almost officially ended, and we thought we could catch a bit of Fall color in the higher altitude. It was a bright blue day, unusual, since we had so many fires this season. We didn't see any aspens turning, but there was color in the brush; bright red poison ivy and assorted tree shrubs.

We hadn't taken the kids on a drive in a while, because they had been *crazy* in the car lately, but we had just gotten a new (to us) van, and the kids loved it, so they were eager to go for a drive.
It was so beautiful up there~ the camera did not capture the color~ the hills were bright yellow.

Rowan was *so happy* to find this very nice rock, and they were both so happy to be there~ I could tell it was healing their bodies and minds to be there...
The boys started hopping rocks, upriver, trying to make it to a big rock they saw up ahead. They never did make it to that rock because it was too hard to get across, but they sure had a lot of fun.

On the way down the mountain, we crossed over and took Rist Canyon the rest of the way home. After a quick stop at Wendy's we came home & had lunch. That was an unusually special and happy day we had together.

~Beth






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