Birthday

Today is my Birthday. I'm 32. We got back from our weekend trip to the Great Sand Dunes. The dunes were pretty cool. I'd go back. We lost most of our pictures but we did get some good ones. The camera got sand in it and isn't working anymore. Sad. We took so many pictures. We stayed in a rustic cabin in Mosca near the dunes. We got up at 6 yesterday and were at the dunes by 6:30. You have to cross a shallow riverbed to get to the dunes, which was interesting. Not for the faint of heart. It's a watertable that saturates the sand with meltoff from the mountains and runs about a quarter mile wide (my guess). It's anywhere from an inch or so to a foot and a half deep in different spots. And at 6:30 in the morning it was so cold my feet ached crossing it. The kids were having so much fun they didn't say much about it being cold. But later in the day it warmed up and was really fun to play in. We'd definatly go back. It reminded me of playing at the dunes in Saudi. We spent many family nights out at the dunes. Of course we didn't have to drive very far to get to them, just out of town.

Last night we stayed in Pueblo at a hotel so we could shower and then today we went to the Colorado Springs Zoo on our way back. It was alright but a little too hot and it's hard to have fun in the heat. The kids did pretty well until we started driving back and they had a meltdown over a water bottle. Somehow it escalated to Taylor yelling at them (they were being really really naughty- just the girls, Evan fell asleep) and almost crashing at a round-about. Then we pulled over and he gave Emi a good swat on the bum (he couldn't reach Olivia who was hiding in the back.) I don't know if you're supposed to blog about those parts of a vacation but here it is anyway.