Memorial Day in Colorado

This year because Sean has limited time off and he already has to take a week off for Scout camp plus at least another week for our family reunions in the summer we hoped that maybe we could do the Memorial Day trip with Sean's family a little closer to us this year. We LOVE Duck Creek, which is where we usually go, but it's a good 9 hour drive for us which means we would have to take more time off. Anyway after looking at several options Sean's parents found a cabin about 20 miles outside Durango Colorado. None of us had really spent much time there before so this was kind of a fun change. We went to a Gold Mine one day (it's a closed mine, but they have tours - they take you inside the mine in an actual mine train car and then tell you all sorts of stuff inside. When you're done you come out and can pan for gold). It was quite interesting and the kids enjoyed themselves. We found a little hike on the way back to the cabin. Sean carried Nathan part of the way up - I had Austin in the baby carrier on my back. On the way back, Megan was tired and sick of walking so Sean let her ride on his shoulders. Nathan also wanted a ride, so I had Nathan on my shoulders and Austin on my back (I felt like I was a couple inches shorter when we got to the bottom of the trail). Sean and Grandpa and Kelly took Ben and Caelan and Logan fishing. Caelan caught her very own fish - pulled it out of the water and everything. It was a pretty good size too. A couple of ladies helped show these guys the ropes...HE HE HE. Sean had a fish on his line, but he was helping someone at the time and by the time he ran over to it it swam off. The ladies gave them two other fish to take. We cooked them up and ate them that afternoon - delicious!! Even the non-trout-lovers thought it was tasty. We brought a canoe with us, but the wind picked up pretty much the day we got there. Kelly tried to go out on it but quickly came back not wanting to capsize on the lake. On Sunday we were in charge of the family devotional. We talked about Lehi's dream - and then we made a little rope course through the trees where each family walked along blind folded. Megan came down with some kind of flu/cold the last day we were there - she was pretty miserable (hot and tired and weak). She slept for a good part of the day, but two days later she was back to her regular self. We love our Memorial Day vacations.