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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Colorado Part 2: Rocky Mountain High

We went up the Estes Park aerial tram with two objectives:  (1)  to check out the cool views of the town below, and (2) to hang out with the fat chipmunks who live up top and wait for tourists to feed them peanuts.  Mission accomplished.

Heading up the tram.  If you think Max looks less than thrilled to be in a red cage dangling from a cable being dragged up a mountainside, you should have seen his Grandma (who does not like heights but nevertheless sucked it up and braved the ride).



Once we arrived up top, we grabbed a bag of peanuts, and headed out in search of the chipmunks.


There they are!



Note Max clinging desperately to Chris.  Bless his heart, you would have thought they were zombie chipmunks the way he was acting (Max, not Chris, just to be clear).


Scarlett and BB.


More clinging.  Oh, the horror!


In addition to discovering that Max is terrified of chipmunks, we learned that Scarlett loves to rock climb.  All week long she scrambled up any rocks she could find, big or small.


More hungry chipmunks.


The gang watches Scarlett and the chipmunks from a safe distance (maybe Max was onto something after all ...).


Picnic lunch.


Cutie.


Dark clouds started to move in after lunch (it rained every afternoon while we were in Colorado, which conveniently coincided with nap time), and we had to dash back down for fear of getting stuck up on top of the mountain in a rainstorm.  There was quite a lightening show on the tram ride down, which made the ride down even dicier than the ride up.




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