Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park

This year for spring break Dustin wanted to go to Colorado to see Danielle and our friends.  We had originally planned to visit some National Parks during spring break so we just changed the parks we visited.  We were able to visit 4 national parks.

After spending a couple of days with our dear friends the Padilla's we headed up to Estes Park.  Dustin was able to score us a REALLY good deal at the Historic Crags Lodge.  We were unable to check into our room when we got to Estes, so we drove around Rocky Mountain National Park.  We took routes that neither Dustin nor I had ever been on.  We were able to reminisce about our snowshoeing and hiking adventures of days long ago.  The boys were asleep in the back seat this whole time.  It was snowing while we were in the park.  We of course stopped at the visitor's center to get our cancellation.  We checked out the gift shop and picked up a couple of things.
When we were done at the park we headed back to Crags Lodge to check in.  It was a nice little space.  It had a living room area where the couch pulled out to a bed, window seat, a kitchenette, bedroom and bathroom.  The boys LOVED having the space to move around in and thought it was fun to run through all the doors.  Dustin ran to the grocery store to pick up a few things for us to make dinner for the night and  breakfast and lunch for the next day.
The next day we went back to RMNP to do a little hiking.  We hadn't brought our snowshoes and seeing all the snow David was concerned that we wouldn't be able to do any hiking.  However, knowing the park as we did we knew that we wouldn't need our snowshoes.  The trails are so popular they get pretty packed down rendering snowshoes pointless unless you are exploring on your own.  We had a great time and although we didn't do the trail we though we were going to we enjoyed the beauty of the park.

My boys in the snowy mountains!