Home Sweet Salida

Since my niece Jamie is in town, we decided to rent a cabin in Salida for a few days. It was great to get into the wilderness and relax for a little while...although our 'wilderness' included a full kitchen, hot tub, and 52-inch TV with satellite. ;)

One day we drove down to Great Sand Dunes National Park. Seeing the dunes in the middle of all the mountains is pretty amazing! They are a lot harder to climb than they look, and we all decided we'd last about 2 days in the Sahara!

Yup, they are steep!
But Colby had a lot of fun sliding down them!
The local bear at our cabin...
Another day we went on a hike...it was reviewed as "easy", but turned out to be over 2 miles of straight up hiking! We were about to quit, but Jamie made us keep going...and we're glad we did b/c the lake and snow at the top were beautiful!

Crossing the river...

Teenager...
Hmm...guess we need to add an IPOD onto his birthday list!