So, my husband decides to get his drivers license renewed the day before we leave. In this day and age you have to have id in order to board a flight. Cut to the morning of, we need to leave our house at 8:45 for our 10:30 flight. Um, yeah. 9:15 we finally pull out of the driveway. Why? Ryan could not find the license renewal anywhere and panicked. We got his birth certificate and went on our way. At 9:40 we arrive at check - in with Ryan parking the car. Ticket lady "do you know you are past the luggage cut off?" NO! We check in and get in the long ass security line. Holy cow, we are screwed! It is 10 am and we have at least a half an hour wait.
Yeah, it takes until 10:28. What happens? Our flight is delay due to a bird hitting the wing upon arrival. They have to make sure the aircraft is sound before we depart. Made it, whew.
Arrive in Denver at 1 and depart from Denver to Aspen at 1:20. We literally are at a different terminal 50 gates on the other end. Never gonna make it. We have little people with little legs with us. But, we roll. We roll in with 10 minutes to spare. We arrive on time in Aspen. Never happens.
We go into town, eat Mexican, drink margaritas. We see the Grammer family arrive the next day and we have fun. Sam and Caleb are two peas in a pod. Abby is mildly amused and irritated at them. She seems to adore the twins. They are great!
We bungy, we fish, we putt putt, we eat ice cream, we visit the candy shop, we draw, we color, we do puppet shows, we visit the Carbondale Mountain Fair, we do it all.
Revisitng the fair for just a moment, it was like nothing I have ever seen. It was literally hippy + tattooed man + drunken fairy + kids+ wood splitting champion + food from everywhere + face painter + shopping. CRAZY and I mean it. On top of that, it frickin' rains for half an hour and it is a total downpour. Greatest people watching ever!
The kids loved fishing. They did it a couple times. Sam found a baby snake and Amy introduced the twins to the exicitng world of snakes. Ben liked them, Hayes liked them from afar.
I actually got to run in the cool wonderful weather, secretly scared I would meet a bear upon my jog. Thank goodness, that did not happen. Hayes, Sam and I took a hike from Faraway Road all the way to the Treehouse parking lot. Thank goodness, we did not meet a bear then either.
Why, you ask, are you scared about a bear? Well, because they are eveyrwhere this year and warnings are out in full force. And, the morning we left for Texas, a bear peered into the house while my parents looked back at him. The bear then wandered down the mountain. A day before, and Mr. Bear and I might have been meeting on not so friendly circumstances.
So, are you thinking yet how lucky we are to be in great gorgeous Colorado? Well, just wait a second.
When I travel with my husband, something always happens, Well, we are dropped at the airport our last day by my parents and we check in. Ryan is good to go. He is staying over in Denver to work on his new awesome App with his brother. This was preplanned. I, and the boys, on the other hand have been mysteriously bumped from our flight and it appears that we will not make it home that day. WHAT??????? SERIOUSLY? This is ridiculous!
The downside, they gave us a BS reason as to why we were bumped. The upside, I could delay a day and stay at my parents place and enjoy Colorado another day. The other downside, we have to wake up at 5 am to make out flights home.
I wake up the boys and Ben says "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" I said, to go home. He said "Darn it! No one should have to wake up in the middle of the night!" I agree. Anything earlier than dawn and it is too early to get up.
The good news? We got home by lunch and we were all very happy.
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