Fun in Lake City

Carsten and Grant playing on a caboose at the Lake City Museum.

The view from Susan Kirkland's deck in Lake City.

Carsten and Grant in the "jail" at the museum.

The last picture is of Grant at a local playground.

We are having a good time in beautiful Lake City, Colorado where our son-in-law's mother owns a summer home. Lake City is a cute little town located one hour east of Gunnison. The elevation here is over 8600 feet!! It's a killer on bike rides!

Dennis and I drove here with our grandsons on Monday and Rena joined us yesterday. Poor Rena got stuck behind a accident on the way here yesterday and the normal 5.5 hour drive turned into 9 hours. We had a very fun day today taking the boys to a park in town and then to a great museum. The boys had a great time in the caboose and in the old play house. I think they could have stayed there all day. Also the museum gave out little papers with pictures of things to find all around the museum. It was really quite hard to find everything but we were determined and with the help of other people we found all the items and the boys each got a sticker as a prize. Dennis and I went on a bike ride in the afternoon but it was way to steep so we ended up just riding around town. It was okay because yesterday we rode over 20 miles up the 4-wheel-drive road and back. It is absolutely beautiful here.

The trailer that we are supposed to drive back to Lyons for Rena and Nathan is not ready yet so tomorrow we are going to take off for some more adventuring. First we are going to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. We plan to stay there one night and then either head to Durango or Crested Butte. We would prefer to go to Crested Butte but we don't think we can find a place to camp or even a room there because on Sunday they are having the last qualifying race for the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race. We would love to go watch the race and might just go for the day. Our plans are very much still up in the air. We do plan to come back here to pick up the trailer early next week and head back to Lyons.

We are starting to get tired of being on the road and living out of our van. It is hard staying at so many different places and trying to keeping everything organized. Maybe our summer of love will be ending sooner than we think.... We will keep you posted.

Love, Dana and Dennis