Recently the Wooster clan traveled down to Colorado Springs, Colorado for nine days. Matt was sent to a ranch conference/school so the girls tagged along.
Wooster was in sessions every day from 8am to 5pm.
We girls found many other things to do than sit in a hotel room for eight days. On our first day alone, we went to visit the headquarters for Focus on the Family.
http://www.focusonthefamily.com
We have been listening to their broadcasts and supporting them for many, many years. Ruby is just now able to listen to the Adventures in Odyssey series. She doesn’t catch everything they are saying but we’ve listened to a few broadcasts in the truck on our long Wyoming drives.
We are very familiar with Whit’s End, John Avery Whitaker and all his friends.
(Whit’s famous Raspberry Ripple ice cream. Clara and I shared it and it was great! Ruby had a double scoop of chocolate ice cream and ate it ALL herself.)
At the headquarters there is a big book store and visitor center. The visitor center has a free two story play area for kids. They also have a three story tube slide, but we weren’t tall enough to ride it.
They both had a great time.
The next few days were packed full of touring the air force academy campus, hiking in the Garden of the Gods, shopping in STORES (that weren’t hours away), playing indoors at a Chuck-e-Cheese type place while it snowed, more hiking in Palmer Park, and eating in an airplane restaurant.
(Clara usually picks out boots every.single.time. when given a choice of shoe wear. She loves them.)
(Kissing Camels, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO)
(Balance Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO)
(ITZD, indoor arcade, playground, pizza place—like Chuck-e-Cheese)
(the airplane restaurant is in an this actual airplane. It served from the 50’s to the end of the 70’s. The restaurant is built around it.)
We girls had a great time during the day by ourselves.
The town of Colorado Springs was much, much larger than I thought it would be. It also reminded me why I hate three lane traffic, driving thirty feet to the next set of stop lights, and thousands of people around all the time.
At one point, Ruby asked from the back seat, “WHERE ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE GOING?!?” Exactly.
We were also proud that we navigated the city by ourselves with only a little map. No GPS, no stopping and asking for directions and no one to help us. We did very well. We left each morning around 10am and didn’t come back to the hotel until around 5pm.
Overall, the girls did fairly well for living in a hotel for 8 days. Clara was a little challenging to keep quiet, but would quickly say “shhhhh” when we would step out in the hallways. It was very nice to have someone clean up, cook breakfast, take away dishes and towels for a week.
(Denver Skyline)
The trip back went smoothly. As we neared the Wyoming state line there were less and less cars and trucks.
Colorado was good but coming back to Wyoming was a like a breath of fresh air.
