My New Tortures to Endure

So, I've enjoyed taking my pickup into the mountains to enjoy some of our new surroundings.  Here are some pictures.

Of course, getting to these areas required some creative driving on some interesting roads.  Some of the roads had some pretty intimidating rocks.  I had to get into 4WD Lo to get up this road.

This one had the truck balancing on the back right and front left.  I could make it teeter back and forth depending on where I put my weight, then it eventually slid a bit to become a little more stable. 

The gentleman in the background was convinced I would hit the bottom of my door/frame on the rock. A good sharp turn to the left got me out of trouble without a dent.  No flats, either!

Eventually I ended up in a meadow with lots of colors.

I'm not sure you can see them, but I got to see a few elk.  Apparently in the fall and close to the first snowfall, the elk make it down to the meadows.  It's not uncommon for people to bring out their lawn chairs and sit at the edge of the meadows watching the male elk fight each other, vying for the attention of the females.

24th of July

The library here is often doing fun activities for the kids. On this day, they had an activity on the bike trail. They had these big pictures of pages from a book posted on the side of the trail and you would read it as you walked along. At the end there was popcorn and lemonade. After a little refreshment there was another story to read as you walked back. We met up with friends at the refreshments.

Ava slept on my shoulder the whole way and woke up just in time for refreshments.

The next couple of pictures were taken by Kailyn. Ava was not cooperating and refused to look up.

Airshow

Ken really wanted to see the airshow. I was not so sure, but I am glad I went. It was pretty cool. The way those planes can fly in formation is amazing. They look so close together. We also had one plane fly so close I swear you could have seen the color of the pilots eyes (if they weren't flying so fast and didn't have masks on). The kids lasted longer than I thought considering how loud it was and their track record for noise. I did eventually take the 3 youngest to the car to watch from there.

The tough ones that stuck it out till the end.