Colorado Vacation (chapter 2)

We drove past Silverton and on to Ouray, CO along the Million Dollar Highway. Quite the perilous route! The white line on the side of the road in some places was the side of the cliff! This is the small town of Ouray.





The kids in front of the neat sign along the road outside of Ouray, CO.







We drove farther north just past Ouray to the small town of Ridgway, CO to eat at the True Grit Cafe. It was covered with John Wayne memorabilia. The cafe was built as a tribute to him as he had spent a great deal of time in the town filming the movie, "True Grit". There was a wall in the cafe that was a backdrop for part of the movie (the restaurant wasn't around at the time) and the park across the street was used in a hanging scene in the movie. It was a very picturesque little town. Made us want to go rent some old movies and see what it looked like way back when.


A & G at Haviland Lake. I accidentally deleted a great picture I'd uploaded (ugh!) of the lake with the mountains in the background (can't get it back, so I'll have to post it later).










K & S at Haviland Lake just north of Durango, CO. It was raining when we got there and so nice and cool. S & K did some fishing with Dad, but no one caught anything. It was peaceful fishing, though.








After fishing at Haviland Lake, we drove up to Durango Mountain Resort (formerly and soon-to-be-again "Purgatory") to see about playing Putt-Putt. It was late afternoon and it looked pretty deserted around there. We were walking up to the putting area to see if it was too late to play and couldn't find any place to get clubs or anything. There were some people just finishing their play and they said we could have their clubs if we fished some balls out of a water bucket (a stinky water bucket . . .). So, I guess we caught something afterall! Dad fished some balls out and he and the kids played while Mom took lots of putting pictures. G was funny as she just kind of scooted the ball around with her putter like in this picture. The club was actually a little big for her and being left-handed made the coordination a bit tricky for her (and us as we tried to help her putt left-handed!)

Dad made a hole-in-one here (so he says), but no one was with him at his hole to witness the event. A is putting in the foreground. Dad is standing in the background with his hands in the air. See the chair lifts up above?









Such great scenery and landscaping, so we had to take some fun pictures of the kids. This was such a pretty spot and made a cool picture! Too bad Mom and Dad aren't there - could be our Christmas pics!