Our First Road Trip Married!

For the 4th of July weekend, my brother Adam, his wife Carlee, and their son Jack, and David and I went to Mancos, Colorado to my grandparents cabin. We arrived the morning of the 4th and just hung out at the cabin for a while. Their cabin is on top of a mountain in a national park, overlooking a lake. It is gorgeous up there! Sadly we didn't take very many pics except when we went to Mesa Verde. That night we went down to the town to watch the fireworks show. Mancos is literally the tiniest town I have ever been to. They have one stop light - which was just installed a few years ago - no Wal-Mart, no gas station, no McDonald's - nothing. The fireworks show was amazing! I have never been so close to fireworks. The firemen were literally about 100 feet away from us! The fireworks were right above our heads and at times you could feel the ashes fall down or see sparks float to the ground. Surprisingly Jack didn't mind the loud booms - he actually fell asleep during the show! On Saturday we decided to go to Mesa Verde - another national park right by their cabin. The park is of cliffside dwellings that Indians carved into the side of mountains a long, long time ago. Below is the picture of the one we toured. There are three different large "cities" you can tour and we chose this one. Adam had Jack in a backpack thing so we figured we shouldn't do the tour that involved crawling through a space 18 inches tall and 2 feet wide with a baby! This is an above view of the one we toured (I can't remember the name of it) we climbed down stairs and latters to get to it. Apparently the Indians would just climb down the very straight side of the mountain, just digging their toes into the side of the mountain - um, no thank you.

David and I waiting on top of the mountain to begin our tour.

Down at one of the other cites - Spruce Tree House - where you didn't need a tour guide. You can kind of see Adam holding Jack and Carlee is to his right.

Me inside one of the places. It would be very dark to live in one of the rooms at the back of the alcoves.

Here is our tour guide teaching us about kivas - the big whole thing in the ground. She was a very giddy lady - she actually kept me entertained the whole time.

Me and my husband!

This is one of the kivas. Some guy in our tour told us that one time a girl fainted and fell into one of these. She hit her head on the side and just fell to the bottom with a pool of blood forming around her. He said that another guy on the tour jumped down to help her and the your guide yelled to him, "hey, you're not allowed down there!" He said a helicopter had to come fly her out of the area. Scary!
David standing inside one of the other kivas that had a cover on it.

After Mesa Verde, we were going to go eat at a cafe in Mancos that Adam and Carlee told us was supposed to be amazingly good. We got there at 2:09 pm and it had closed at 2:00. We were so angry! We asked some lady in the street if there were any other restaurants in town. Our two choices were either the Hamburger Hut or something like that which looked disgusting or some restaurant called Millwood Junction. We chose that one. We stepped inside and I'm pretty sure we were the only ones not wearing a bandana and leather pants. The other diners definitely did not appreciate us bringing a baby into the "restaurant" (I'm pretty sure it was actually just a bar.) The food was decent. My favorite part was when Adam went to change Jack's diaper. As you can imagine, there was definitely no changing table in the bathroom of this "restaurant". Adam just had David hold Jack up in the air and they changed his diaper. Poor Jack. Then after church on Sunday we headed home. It was fun. Our first road trip as a married couple!