The drive out of Breckenridge was beautiful through the mountains. Check out this sign we passed - that's not one we see a lot at home!
Simply beautiful scenery. We kept telling the boys to take a break from playing and watch out the windows, but I guess they're a little young for that. They would stop and look out the window, then say 'ok' and start playing again. When I was little, I remember my dad telling me I would see a lot more if I would get my nose out of a book. :)
Along the way, we visited a wolf santuary in a town near Colorado Springs. They take in wolves from a variety of sources and have an impresive property to house the wolves. Since it was the heat of the day, the wolves were not too active or excited to come see us, but a few were tempted by the treats and came to the fence.
This guy says 'eh, I don't want a treat THAT badly, I'm pretty comfy here.'
The tour guide was very interesting - she shared a lot of information about each wolf and how they came to arrive at the santuary. You could tell she was very passionate about wolves and really enjoyed her job.
Karsten and Liam enjoyed seeing the wolves, but since it was so hot, they quickly got tired of hearing all of the history and back stories on the wolves. Liam had trouble saying wolves, so he called them wolf-ez.
My camera kept trying to focus on the fence rather than the wolves. I kept thinking that everything I was shooting was blury because it looked blurry through the viewfinder, but when I checked the preview, it looked fine. Later, Scott realized that I needed to change the focus on the viewfinder, I must have bumped it and put it out of focus.
Our guide told us there are a lot of people who either have wolves or wolf dogs as pets. Apparently it's easy to find and order them online. She said they rescued a wolf dog from two college boys who had bought it thinking it would be the perfect pet for them. When it was a couple of months old, they realized they couldn't handle it and wanted to surrender it.
This guy didn't want to come down and see us, but you could see him eyeing us.
The boys took a break while the guide shared another story about the wolves.
This is an artic wolf - it was very pretty with thick white fur. She said that these animals are very prized for their fur to make jackets.
This guy looked the most menacing of all of the wolves. He was in a large cage by himself and she said that only limited staff are able to directly interact with him because he has very unpredictable behavior.
At the end, everyone tried to do a wolf call to see if we could get the wolves to howl back with us. We howled over and over again but the wolves weren't in a howling mood.
After all that listening, we needed a snack. I had some granola bars in the car that got a bit melty due to the heat. Karsten said they still tasted good, when I turned around and saw his face I burst out laughing.
When we got into Colorado Springs, we tried to go to Seven Falls so we could see the beautiful falls. We got to the entrance and there was construction, but we assumed it was just the entrance, not the entire park. Unfortunately, we were wrong and the entire park was closed. Apparently it had just been purchased and was undergoing renovations. We'll check it out on our next trip!
We got to Grandma's house and Kimberly was so excited that we had finally arrived! Karsten remembered playing with Kimberly on our last trip and after a few minutes of sitting quietly, he was ready to play. On the other hand, Liam was Mr. Shy Guy and kept burying his face in my sholder or arm and didn't want to let go. It took 20-30 minutes before he warmed up and turned around to wach what Karsten and Kimberly were playing. However, he still wouldn't talk to Grandma yet, that was going to take some additional time.
Grandma had a tub full of Legos and all three of the kids had a great time building. Liam built this cool car all by himself.
Kimberly built a nice house then was building all the furnishings for the house. Very creative!
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