Crested Butte Part 1

We had a mini family reunion in Crested Butte Colorado.

My brother Doug and his family, my Dad, my sister Kelly,

and my brother Robb and his family all came up for the fun.

Most of us drove up there on the 2nd of July and stayed

through the 5th.  The first two days we just hung out in

Crested Butte and enjoyed the festivities going on around

town.  We ate at the Brick Oven and had yummy pizza,

played bocci ball in the yard, relaxed in the hot tub and

of course had a heated battle of uchre.  Good times all around.

The entire weekend we had Keeley and Kayla yelling

from the backseat EVERY time they saw horses or cows.

They would scream, "horses!" and scare me to death.

They thought that they were wild horses just because they

were out in an open field.  Rascals I tell you.

My nephew giving Kelly a piggy back ride!

Waiting for a table at the Brick Oven for pizza.

Kelly and I decided to take the girls on a little bike ride.

The little bike ride turned into a long and hot one, let me explain.

There was a trail all the way through town up to the mountain.

Everyone there rides bikes all summer so we wanted to

join the locals and experience a little bike ride through Crested

Butte.  Kelly started down the trail with Haley and Kayla

while I tried to get Keeley to stop having a panic attack.

The bikes had hand brakes and she is used to pedal breaks.

Kelly and the girls took off and Keeley and I decided to just

head back to the park where she wasn't so scared to ride.

About an hour later we see Kayla riding up by herself.

I asked her where is Haley and Kelly and she replied that

Haley took off and Auntie Kelly had to go find her.

We sat for another twenty minutes and Haley showed up with

the car keys hanging from her back.  Haley ended up going

about four miles up the mountain and Kelly had to chase her

down on foot.  Crazy child was really enjoying herself and

decided that she wasn't going to give up until she conquered

the whole mountain.  She gets that determination from ME!

We eventually found Kelly and returned the bikes.

Kelly wasn't very pleased with the event but I couldn't help but

laugh at it.  Poor Kelly didn't even have tennis shoes on for the

long hike.  What a day we had.

Crested Butte did fireworks on the 3rd of July so we

hung out and watched them from the park.  It was

super chilly that night, much cooler than we were expecting.

Everyone in the park had dogs?  Don't dogs hate fireworks?