Monday, June 29, 2009

Eugenia Mine and Estes Park Tram

We drove up scenic route 7 to get to Estes Park, stopping at the Eugenia Mine trail on the way. This was our first trail. It was very nice. We got snowed on and sleeted on just a little bit on the way down. John enjoyed throwing rocks and sticks into the stream at the top.

That evening we rode on the Estes Park Tramway. John liked it a lot. At the top, aside from the great views of the Estes Park valley, there was a gift shop where you could buy bags of peanuts to feed to the swarms of chipmunks. That of course was very popular with John. Although it devolved into John tossing the peanuts to the chipmunks. He wasn't quite patient enough to hold the peanut out so the chipmunk would come get it. There were also some great climbing rocks.

The next morning, we rode horses at a stable in Estes Park. I spent most of the time wheezing with asthma. I guess I'm allergic to horses. John had a good time, but was ready to get down once we got back to the stable.

3 comments:

jessica v. said...

Great pictures - y'all sure did a lot!

By the way - when sitting in the backpack carry thing did John ever make Tony lose his balance from leaning over too much? It would seem that if John wanted to look at the ground and he did it too suddenly, it would be difficult to balance...

Christine said...

John looks so tall in these pictures! Wow! Even taller than when we saw you guys this winter. Has he grown a lot?

Tony said...

When we were practicing the backpack at home we let him go without the shoulder harness a few times, then one day he was bouncing back and forth pretty violently, which threw me off balance. Since then I have required the shoulder harness to be worn and we haven't had any problems.