I cannot wait until springtime again. Lately I’ve had a few people asking me what there is to do here or what things they can do with their family and I had to go into my handy dandy archives of this here blog to give them suggestions based on personal experience. I mean this started as an adventure blog, you know. Anyway, in doing so I enjoyed reminiscing while reading and looking at photos of all our adventures – especially in our first year here – and got total wanderlust. I want to dooooo thiiiiinnngggs agaaaiinn! (in case you couldn’t tell, that’s me, whining)
Our adventures slowed down a bit ever since I got knocked up (July 2010) and rightfully so – a) I was pregnant and exhausted, b) I gave birth to a baby, c) we bought a fixer-upper house when we had a 2-month-old and just got it to a good place, d) Ryan started school, e) life just got busy! – but we still managed to do quite a lot. From just small trips to Golden to holiday trips to Winter Park/Tabernash, we have still done something adventure-y at least once a month.
But in case you haven’t been around since the beginning of this blog, I’ll recap what we used to cram into our weekends when we first came here when we were young and spry, heh. I’m talking we went somewhere different Friday, Saturday and Sunday a lot of times.
I mean our winter adventures were just fun (2009/2010):
- Our first weekend here in November 2009 we took a motorcycle ride up Lookout Mountain in Golden and then took a road trip to Rocky Mountain National Park
- Then the next weekend we had Thanksgiving in Tabernash
- For Christmas we returned to Tabernash and then went to Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison
- At the end of January we visited Evergreen and hiked Deer Creek Canyon Park
- In March we took a little drive through Golden Gate Canyon State Park after a big snowfall
And just look at all the fun we had in the spring of 2010:
- This weekend my dad came to visit and we went everywhere from Golden to Evergreen to Morrison to Winter Park and to Golden again
- This weekend we played around in the foothills of Golden and then went to Boulder
- This weekend we hiked North Table Mountain and Mt. Falcon
- This weekend we took a drive along Scenic Highway 6 and went to Georgetown – downtown and hiking
And then all the crazy fun we had in the summer of 2010:
- This weekend we went camping in Santa Isobel National Forest in Buena Vista
- This week we went nuts and did everything from Golden to Colorado Springs to Rocky Mountain National Park and then did it all over again a couple weeks later
- This week we went tubing down Clear Creek along with all the other things from the links above
And that’s not even including all our fun mini adventures in beautiful, colorful, quaint Golden.
BUT! Do you want to know what we’ve been up to in 2011/2012? I thought so! Pre-baby/pregnancy:
- Spent our Labor Day in Winter Park/Tabernash
- Took a driving trip up Mt Evans not once, but twice (although one time was with an actual baby, not just a baby in-utero)
- We took a trip to Utah when I was 6.5 months pregnant
- Another Christmas up in Tabernash where we went on a horse-drawn sleigh ride
Post-baby:
- Once our little peanut arrived we went downtown Littleton and E-Days in Golden
- Took a cross country road trip, not once (June 2011) but twice (December 2011)
- Saw our first rodeo together as a family and took a boat trip on Grand Lake
Now just in case it seems like I’m forgetting all the fun we have been having during the winter, here are some recent winter adventures I can’t neglect to mention – our Thanksgiving Day hike up South Table Mountain and the perfect hiking day. So it’s not like we have to wait for spring, but still.
As you can see, we’ve had a plethora of adventures in the 2.5 years we’ve been here. And we plan to keep having more – even if they are fewer and farther between.
We be adventurin’,
Laura