Ella's World: Spring Break Fun

It is finally starting to feel like spring around here. Which is a good thing, because the cousins come down during their spring break for some fun...ok, a lot of fun! They came down and spent the night and boy did they have fun with that. The kids love playing together and picking on each other, you would think they were more like siblings than cousins who hardly see each other. Then at bed time they all had to get in the hide-a-bed and be silly during story time.

The next day we took the boys to Canon City to see the Dinosaur Depot Museum. I guess at one point it use to be the depot for the Royal Gorge train, but now it's a dino museum. It's a very small, but cute museum. It is just perfect for little kids, and it is supper affordable. They had a stegosaurus that was found near Canon City that was fully intact. They also had some bones from some other dinosaurs like a T-rex, but not a full skeleton, just parts. The kids didnt' care, they all thought it was cool. The upstairs part of the museum was all hands on stuff: toys, activities, and bones they could touch.

Then we went behind the museum to the Royal Gorge train station. The trains weren't running that day so we could wonder around the yard and look at them. Then we went across the street to a park and watched the ducks for a bit. It was so nice that everything was right there in walking distance. The museum is even just down the street from my aunts house, and it was great that she came along with us.

After lunch we went to the Royal Gorge itself. My cousin got free tickets from her work, so we went and walked across the bridge. It was really windy so the bridge was swaying back and forth and going up and down. It was almost as bad as being on a boat, good thing it wasn't because I get sea sick. Ella loved the bridge moving. She was sitting in her stroller (no way I let her walk) and she kept saying "bump, bump, bump," all away across the bridge. She didn't mind looking over the edge of the bridge either. On the other side was a ghost town set up, not much to do but it gave the kids the opportunity to burn of some energy before the long drive home.

It was a short and busy visit, but we enjoyed it all the same. Here are some pictures of our adventures.