An Amazing Weekend

Mom and dad are here! We're very excited to have our first visitors to Paonia. They're also the only ones that will see the house we're in now, since we're moving within a month. Here's some of what we've done so far:
Saturday morning we went to Butch's Cafe, in honor of my dad. Mom has the picture of the huge pancake the size of a pizza -- I'll have to upload that later.


Here mom and I are getting ready to ride the train into the gold mine in Silverton, CO.


And here we are in the gold mine! Hi Ho, Hi Ho...


Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde. They took us right down into it, and we all stood around the kivas and poked our heads into windows. It was amazing!


Like this!


Aren't they cute?

We also went to Balcony House. You don't get to see the grand scope like you do with Cliff Palace, but you get to tour more parts of it. You have to climb a lot of ladders and go through tunnels to get to it. It was so fun!


Ryan in the tunnel.


This is what we had to climb to get out of Balcony House. It looks worse than it is.

Mesa Verde was amazing! It's almost 5 hours away from where we live, but that's totally doable. Don't you want to visit so you can go see it??