Day 15, Grand Junction, Colorado

Again, great plans for this day!! But first we have to stop by the house again to pick up stuff we left there last night. I know what you’re thinking! I know what you’re thinking!!

But no, we picked up our treasures and two minutes later were back on the road. We spent the day in Glenwood Springs. We started by taking a gondola up to the top of the mountain. We had lots of nervous giggles the whole way up, but we made it unharmed. Then we toured the caverns for over an hour and learned all kinds of new words about cavern formations. I would list them all, but I can’t remember one of them.

In the evening we took the gondola back down the mountain, drove into town, and considered swimming the hot springs. The price has gone up considerably since I was a kid, so we skipped it and settled for a look. And a smell. The smell was kinda everywhere. The Glenwood Springs Stench.

Tia and I decided shopping would make us feel better, and we were right. We bought a few trinkets and found a couple of good books, so we were in heaven. We fed the boys, so they were happy, too.

Then time to head back to base camp. This was our earliest night in so far, and we kinda didn’t know what to do with ourselves. We started a fire while it was still daylight…which kinda lost something. And we had no marshmallows.

Oh well, off to bed. ;o)