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Road Trip Day 4

 Luke woke to the sound of birds at 5:30 Am and crawled into our bed. I didn’t sleep much after that. I got up and took our laundry down to the laundromat on the resort. It was a peaceful, quiet and cool walk. I could handle waking up this early everyday if I had this kind of view and weather. Our resort had a waffle breakfast buffet for all the guests. Luke is not shy at all, he sees the neighbors and goes and joins their family at a table. He cracks me up. He also went up to another lady that he recognized and patted her and said "boo". He is such a people person. He also took his mini waffles, stacked them on top of each other with cool whip in the middle and announced he made a waffle sandwich. The rest of the morning the kids played with the neighbors riding bikes. I sat in our little hammock to read. This afternoon we went on our mountain ATV adventure. I booked this back at home and thought it sounded fun. We drove a ways out onto some back road. We were given a 6 seater UTV, helmets, and sent on our way. I was not feeling very safe after talking to the owner. He went on and on about accidents and talked about how crazy busy it is out there today. We were on our won, no guide. The trails are narrow and you have to watch out for each other and sometimes jeeps will pass you. I was beginning to rethink my great idea. Mark drove and the three kids were in the back. The trail was rough and rugged, way more than I thought. There were ruts, ravines, rocks, and hairpin turns along cliffs. It was definitely an adventure. We stopped once and let Luke get in the front, his neck was hurting from his seat. We drove all the way up the mountain then back down to a campground. That was one way and it took an hour. Then we had to go back the way we came. I got to drive on the way back. I thought it was fun. The kids said I was a fast driver.  At one point I had to pull over and let a group of 10 jeeps pass. After driving the trail, I cannot begin to imagine taking a jeep through it! I enjoyed it, but I think it got a little too long for everyone. Back near our resort, we had an early supper with plans to swim. A thunder cloud moved through, so we waited for it to pass before swimming. On July 11 and July 12, on two separate occurrences, two people were killed in Rocky Mountain National Park by lightning while hiking. Quite scarey. By the time the kids went to the pool it was evening and had cooled off. The pool water felt very warm compared to the outside air. They still had fun and stayed in the water for quite some time. Out of the pool was more riding bikes and playing with the neighbor kids until it was dark.


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