Sunday, July 6, 2008

Our July 2008 Family Vacation

We left for our vacation on Thursday the 26th and just returned today the 6th. It has been a great vacation. We started out driving through the eastern part of South Dakota, staying in Sioux Falls. We continued through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and stayed in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City to be precise. We went on through Texas and stopped in New Mexico, Jesse's parents and 3 of his siblings live there, 1 sibling is home from school for the summer.














Jemez Springs














Family on Jemez rock














Ben inside Jemez Rock














Farruzah and Even climbing out of the rock.

We were there from Saturday to Tuesday morning. We were able to take the train to Albuquerque and had a nice time the kids caught a movie. We then went to Taos, NM and visited Bandelier. Great pictures of the homes the Pueblo people lived in. We then went to Denver with Jesse's parents and siblings and spent some time at Elitch Gardens. The kids had a great time in the water park and the main amusement park. We also went to a fun Mexican restaurant, Casa Bonita. The night before we left, the hotel had a fire alarm go off in the middle of the night. There wasn't a fire, that we know of, but we were outside waiting for the firefighters to clear the building at 3:30 in the morning.

















Bandalier Pueblo homes














Ben on water ride at Elitch Gardens, Denver/ The man running the ride teased him about all his girlfriends (the girls beside him)

Friday we headed to South Dakota as a family and Jesse's parents went back to New Mexico. We had fun at Flintstone park and the Mammoth Site. Saturday we went to Sitting Bull Cave, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Reptile Gardens. We are all wore out, but wanted to show some picture from the event.














Family at Mammoth Site in South Dakota


Betty pushing Evan.















Reptile Garden Alligator/Crocodile show















Bald Eagle at Reptile Gardens















Kids at Reptile Gardens



















Jesse and Kids in Sitting Bull Cave
















Family in front of Crazy Horse

Couldn't go to South Dakota and not stop at Mt. Rushmore.
As you can see we saw a lot in only 12 days, but the best part for all of us was spending time as a family and being with family.

1 comment:

Arden and Tammy said...

Fun vacation! I love all of the places you went to. Looks like lots of fun! Tammy