Colorado - Red Dirt

On Friday morning, some of Grant's team who was already in town went to the Broncos Stadium for a tour.

Max, G, TG, and Trent

 

 

John Elway suite

 

 

Sporting a sample championship ring

 

 

The rest of us met up with them for a tour of the Coors facility that afternoon!

 

 

I could have watched this part with the conveyor belts for at least 30 minutes.

 

Greg and Toni make everything fun

 

Three free samples - and they weren't small!!

 

Group pic!

 

One of the teammates has an uncle named Eric Chavez.  He had batting practice for the boys, a HR contest and Parents v Kids game - Jason and Grant may have had the most fun of the trip at this time.

 

Swimming pool time!

 

 

 

 

 

We all probably stayed up too late this night playing at the pool and around the hotel!  We had a great game schedule for vacation - 12:00 and 2:00, which allowed for an early team dinner!

 

Baseball, Day 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baseball, Day 2

This was a hot one!
That's my dad's hand. That's all I have of GG and Bubba stopping in at Lakewood on their vacation.

 

He still managed to find an open field and completely cover his shirt design!

 

 

Coach Gage

 

Colorado baseball rules are weird - ALL the games were 1:40 and the final game was 2:15.  That was FOREVER for these kids used to 1:15 or maybe 1:30 time limits.

 

It was a great showing of baseball for them - they ended up in the championship game and getting 2nd.  Grant-man ended his baseball season hitting just below .500 and OBP at .698!

 

We had planned to drive all the way home Sunday afternoon/night but after finishing up late at the field, we chose to join in team dinner and then ended up only driving halfway home.

These were the only pictures we had with the medals (coolest ones yet!) because they were late handing them out for the team photos after the game.

 

Drawing sports fields

The drive home...

The many faces of Reid as he watches a high-stress movie - Turbo!  :) haha

 

ahhhh....nail biting

 

oh no! cover up the face!

 

oh good, it is okay! Smiling

 

Thankful to our Lord for allowing us safe travels and many great memories this family trip!

Colorado Days 5-7

The Will Rogers Shrine of Light is entered from the Zoo and further up the mountain. We missed being able to see in on the Zoo day by a few minutes due to a lightning strike. We ventured back on our way to Canon City.

 

Way better view than from the zoo

 

Garden of the Gods

 

Headed off to Canon City

First stop: Royal Gorge

Vote: Biggest waste of $ on the trip

 

this was close enough to the side for me

 

all 50 states are represented on the bridge

 

Reid REALLY wanted to be a Junior Ranger

 

They were sworn in!

 

After the bridge, we headed to Royal Gorge Tours for our zip-lining excursion.

While we waited, the boys found the hammocks and a few zzzzz's.

 

 

Daddy found a beer and a view

 

Zip lining with Royal Gorge Rafting company - super great group. It rained on us the first 5 zips and then cleared out by the end.

 

We started our rafting overnight trip on Wednesday morning at 8:30.

 

 campsite for the evening - in between rain storms

 

playing pretend baseball

 

starting day two after a night of rain and crowded sleeping arrangements

 

 

 

Here is a map of Colorado - we rafted from just west of Salida to just east of Canon City. That's 55 miles in case you were checking!  whew...

 

Our first order of business after getting in to our car after two days of being wet was to drive through Sonic and start a movie in the car!

 

We then headed to Lakewood to meet our baseball friends!