Road Trip: Part Tres

A few photos from this morning's hike.  Now we're off to ride the gondola.  

Afternoon Update--

Ok, we got back from the gondola.  The babies sort of enjoyed it, at least until the bumpy parts of the ride before and after the terminals.  We walked around the base of peak 8 and planned their future trips at the fun park.  Who wouldn't love putt putt, a maze, alpine slides, and of course, bungee cord trampolines.  This doesn't even include the part where they learn how to mountain bike while rocketing down the single track on peak 8.

We tried to get them to nap after the gondola ride, no dice.  There's just to much to do and they know it.  So we put them in the stroller and walked down main street.  Luckily they calmed down before we got to our favorite happy hour spot.  Lindsay peeled and ate about a million shrimp and we both had some tasty drinks.

Now we're back and ready to feed the babies, then ourselves.

Also, Lindsay found out there's a Target in Dillon, so we can move here.  Now if anyone knows anyone at any of the Denver TV stations, I'm quite sure I'm the next mountain bureau reporter.  Now we just have to convince the grandparents to move here too.

Justin

Road Trip: Part Dos

We made it to Breckenridge.  No one got sick, including Lindsay, yet.  The babies seem to be enjoying the cooler weather.  They're all decked out in their long sleeve gear.  Our giant car top luggage carrier even fit into the parking garage.  So things are going well.  We'll put some pics and video up in a bit.

Justin

Road Trip: Part Uno

Hello from Denver.  The twins are a mile high.  Since they can supposedly only see to a distance of a few feet, I doubt they've seen the mountains yet.  Give it a few days, we'll get them within a few feet of the mountains.

We drove to McPherson on Saturday.  That drive went well.  They made it the whole way without a break to eat.  Every baby book I've ever read says that infants don't react all that well to the disruptions of travel.  We thought maybe our kids were beating the odds.  At least on the short drive to Mac town...

Then we trekked our way across Kansas and half of Colorado.

They weren't really all that fussy in the car, at least until we got within 20 minutes of our scheduled feeding stop.  Then all hell broke loose.  But every time we'd get them settled right after a bottle.  Back in the car and away we'd go, with little fuss.

After checking into the hotel they got some much needed happy play time.  They loved it.  I shot some video, we'll try to put that up soon.  After that we went to Tokyo Joe's, my most missed Denver food spot.  The babies apparently are not as fond of the Asian bowl concept as I am.  They literally took turns shouting.  Olivia belted, would calm, and pass the torch to Owen.  Back and forth.  It continued on the car ride back to the Courtyard.

It's now 8:53 MDT.  They've been fed and are contemplating sleep.  So is Lindsay, it's been a long day.

Goodnight

Justin

Side note: I was trying to think of some fun activities for the week in Breckenridge for all of us to do together. I threw out the idea of all of us riding the chair lift up the mountain and hiking around up there.  Lindsay vetoed.

Happy play time

Here's a video I took the other day while O&O were playing somewhat happily.  We're packing for our first road trip right now, can't wait to get out to Colorado and see how the babies like the mountains.


happy play time from Justin Schmidt on Vimeo.