Monday, September 7, 2009

Camping in Estes


We did our last camping this weekend. It was our worst camping trip of the summer. The weather was so disappointing. It rained a lot. We spent a lot of time in the camper playing games. We didn't build one fire.

We arrived Friday night and had dinner. It was very windy so we didn't make a fire. We got up on Saturday and went in to Rocky Mountain National Park. It is near impossible to get a parking spot at Bear Lake, but we got one! We did a long hike to Nymph Lake, Dream Lake and then Emerald Lake. It was very beautiful. I think Jenelle's favorite part of the hike was all the chipmunks. We had trail mix with us so she would feed the "chippies" some peanuts. There is a sign before you enter the park that says "Don't feed the animals". Now I know why. Those chipmunks are a little too friendly. They were getting on our shoes. I was leaning over and one climbed on my back. It scared me too death! Those little guys are getting a little too tame. After the hike, we had a picnic lunch in the park and then headed back to our campsite. It rained and rained so we decided to go out for dinner.

Sunday we got up and went fishing. We didn't catch anything, but we had fun hanging out near the water. Jenelle and Curt made a rock castle. Soon it started to rain. So we headed back to camp and played some games. Finally it stopped raining. Jenelle and I went to play at the very wet park. She gave that up and found a nice rock pile to climb on. Curt and I packed up camp. As we were driving out of the campground it started to rain AGAIN.

We plan on going back next year. Hopefully, we'll have better weather.

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