Weekend Before Last

Weekend before last, we found ourselves in an unusual position. Aaron was off work and Campbell was out of school. I was able to take the day off from work. With all of that, we decided to take a mini-vacation. Friday morning, we got up early and headed for Mesa Verda in southern Colorado.

We made it to Durango at about noon. We were going to take the kids on a train ride but discovered that the train rides started at 9am and lasted all day. We decided instead to tour the train yard. The tour lasted about 1 1/2 hours and we got to walk through the train yard and the workshops. By the time we finished walking through all of this, Caleb was filthy! His hands were black. He also managed to ruin my khaki pants with the black. Take my advice, if you ever go to a train yard do not wear khaki!

After the tour we headed to Cortez to our hotel. Saturday morning we got up early and headed to Mesa Verde to walk through the ruins. We spent the morning walking through these ruins. The two hikes we went on we had to climb ladders to get to. It was an amazing place and if you ever get a chance to go, Go. We ended our morning there with a picnic lunch.

That afternoon we headed down to Four Corners Monument. At this place Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado all meet at this one spot. All four of us were able to stand in a different state at the same time. We expected more, but alas it was just the little monument. We spent about 30 minutes there before we headed back to Cortez.

On our way back we saw a sign for a winery. We followed the sign and made our way to this cute little winery. We spent about an hour tasting wines while the kiddos played in the gardens. We've never done this before but we had a good time. We were worried the kids would get bored while we were there, but they seemed to have a good time as well.

We made it back to Cortez for dinner. Aaron took Caleb to the potty and made a horrible mistake. He decided to hold him up to the urinal rather than sit him on the potty. Let's just say that Caleb needed to more than just pee.

We ended the evening by watching a documentary on Former President Carter and eating ice cream. Hey, we make learning fun! We headed home Sunday morning with sick child. Campbell woke up at 4 in the morning vomiting. We had to stop more than once on the way home to let her empty her stomach. Poor kid.