Colorado - Part 1

At the end of last month, we travelled to Colorado for my cousin's wedding. Since it was a family wedding, we brought along our entire crew of Cormacks. Which meant that Jonah (age 6) and Elliott (age 2) got to travel with us. If you've ever travelled with children you might know that it can occasionally be stressful. We flew on this trip, and luckily there was a direct flight from Little Rock to Denver. And amazingly, both kids ended up doing great on the flight. My wife read that a new trend is to bring a car seat with you on the plane, which makes the flight much easier since the little ones are constrained. And it worked! We landed in Denver successfully with few tears from the toddler or the other passengers sitting nearby.

We met up with my Aunt in Denver and spent the night at a hotel by the airport. And the next morning we left town and headed to the mountains (before having to stop and backtrack to the hotel to a retrieve a forgotten stuffed animal). The Rockies were beautiful, of course. Especially since the aspen trees were starting to show some great fall color. We were driving along the freeway but managed to find a few stops to try to get a pictures whenever we could. This was along a random exit that we took along I-70.



I'm sure we looked like a bunch of tourists, but were just amazed at how bright and vibrant the aspen leaves were.







The boys got out to stretch their legs, and to look at the aspens. I got this picture of Elliott in one of the few moments where he was still, and it might just be one of the better pictures I've ever gotten of him?



We got back onto the freeway but then pulled over at another exit to try to get a few more pictures....



And then back onto the freeway, only to take another exit just to take a few more pictures.





We left the freeway and headed deeper into the mountains. Along the way I pulled over at this scenic lake, which is apparently the Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir. This would end up being the last stop for pictures that day since the little kids in the back of the car were getting restless.