We spent a nice 3 day weekend at Mom and Dad's over the 4th. Justin was excited to try out the fishin', it has been too long since he's been on the river. So he got the boys up before the sun and they all headed to Ridgway to fish the Uncompahgre River. Not as good as Justin had hoped, but Coltin caught his first rainbow trout river fishing! In the afternoon we visited Sweitzer Lake for a picnic and some swimming. That evening, we went took the younger two up to the Grand Mesa. Fished in a little lake, but the only thing biting there was the mosquitoes. Yea! Justin had to try out this little creek nearby, and sure enough his "Give me 10 minutes." turned into 30 min. Where he and Corbin caught 8 fish (brookies and rainbows). Corbin was thrilled and just kept giggling, cheering, and helping dad! It was cute. As always we enjoyed playing with the horses, feeding, and helping with the clean up chores (actually only the kids like to help, ya know scoop manure and clean the water trough.) On the 4th we took a drive over to Paonia for the Cherry Days Festival and enjoyed their parade and cherries! Our evening fireworks show was put on by the town of Delta and it was a lot of fun. Other than the tired 3 yr old. :( Whom might not make it on the next long trip as he definitely made the long drive longer!! Guess he is out of practice. All our kids, no matter the age, have been pretty good at sleeping some during our road trips. Corbin was not bad in the car, just talkative, loud and restless, I guess you could say 'annoyingly happy.' Not fun when you are sitting in I-70 traffic. Oh well.
It was still fun to get away and enjoy time in the mountains and with my family.
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