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Honeymoon- Day 3

Tuesday was our last full day up in Estes. So we wore our tourist t shirts! And headed back to the Egg and I for breakfast. I loved that pancake so much, I needed another one! It was just as good the second day as well. In vacation tradition, we went back to the cottage and took a nap. Then, we headed up to Rocky Mountain National Park. This is one of Sammy's families favorite place to take people when they visit Colorado so I was excited to see what was so amazing! By the time we headed out though, it had started to lightly rain. It's CO though, so we weren't worried about it being yukky the whole day. And boy, was it beautiful.

We stopped the car and found this beautiful bridge that looked over this marsh. It was raining slightly, and Sammy and I looked for salamanders. The sign said they were there! Unfortunately, we didn't see any though. The view was gorgeous and it felt like this was our place because no one else was around. 

Sammy drove through the park and I was the designated creature hunter. I sent my time scanning the trees for any sign of movement. I found these deer? (I have no idea if they were deer or elk or who even knows!) that you can barely see before any other cars stopped which I felt pretty excited about!
Every time there were a lot of cars stopped, we'd stop too. That meant that there were creatures nearby! You can barely see them through these trees.

This deer? was at another part of the park and every time we took a step she'd look up at us, then keep on eating. I'd like to think that she knew I was harmless. A lot of the animals we saw had collars on their necks which I thought was interesting. 

That morning I'd checked the weather report back home, and it said it was going to be HOT! So when I saw a patch of snow up there, we headed straight towards it because I wanted to get a picture with it. So crazy how it can be one temperature one place and still have snow in another.

My mountain man. I started singing Pocahontas through this part of the park and was looking for a willow tree so I could have a conversation with Grandmother Willow.

One thing I was really excited to see was this little mountain of rocks that you can climb. Sammy's shown me pictures of it before and I wanted to be where he was! It's a bit high up in the park though so I started getting a little dizzy as we made the walk over. Even though there were kids all over, we climbed those rocks!
The drop beneath our feet
We took a lot of selfless on this trip. Also, please note our tourist shirts :) 


When it says to not shake while taking a panorama, it means don't shake!

The park was beautiful and I loved being up there with Sammy :) We went where we wanted to go and left when we wanted to and looked at what we wanted to! It was so freeing!

For dinner we went to a little Mexican restaurant which was fun! The chips and dip and salsa were fantastic! But, being my naive self, I didn't know that this brown sauce is different than green chile, and has a MUCH different taste, so my burrito wasn't my favorite thing in the world. But it was still good if that makes sense. When we left, it was raining and we'd walked over so we had to run up the mountain in the pouring rain. Sammy kept me going near the top when I wanted to stop.

A little later we headed out for something sweet but it was raining so hard again that we just went to the  grocery store. I got this cute little pie and Sammy some yummy donut things. It was sad going to sleep that night because we knew it was our last day there.

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  1. Bailey KayJune 23, 2014 at 8:54 AM

    I love your Estes shirt! I have one that is identical (but pink and bright yellow) for Pikes Peak!

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