Mesa Verde National Park

After the week in Creede, you would think we would be ready to head straight home but no. We decided before we left, since we were already down in the southeast corner of Colorado, we would drive down to Mesa Verde National Park with Tom, Ann and Stephen.

It was at least 105 degrees while we were there. The park is pretty big and we only had a limited amount of time. Ann, Tom and Stephen were driving back to Creede after we were done and Scott, Carter and I decided to go back home "through" Snowmass.

Mesa Verde is a pretty cool park with "homes" in the side of the mesa. Ann had been there before, so after driving around the loop in the park and looking at a few things, she stayed in the car with Carter and Maggie and Scott, Tom, Stephen and I went on a tour of one of the places cut out of the mesa. We didn't think it would be a smart idea to try and climb the 100ft ladder in to the place with Carter in the carrier. It would have been a little difficult to crawl through the small space with him too. Thankfully the picture below is of Stephen and not me, but shows the cramped space. It was a good thing it wasn't too long to get through because that would have been a little tough for me.

It was a good day but hot and sunny, as evidenced by the expression on my face with no sunglasses! There was also a little kid with a BRIGHT green shirt on next to Carter in some of the pictures, which was way more interesting than looking at the camera.