We're Baaaaaack!

So we are back from our exciting RV adventure. We went and saw all of Bryn's Great Granparents on my Dad's side and that was fun. It was so nice in Monticello and we got to see a cool 24th of July parade and we got a ton of candy. Then that night we got to see a cool fireworks show which surprisingly enough didn't phase Bryn at all. She was a little afraid the first few (we were sitting about 800 ft or so from where the were shooting them off from) but then she didn't react at all even with the really loud ones. She was more interested in playing with the glow sticks that we had. We also got rained on at least 4 or 5 times and all night we could hear it on the roof of the RV. It was a nice change. From there we went to Lake McPhee in Colorado and Bryn played in some pretty icy water and had fun until she slipped in and scraped up both knees. She freaked out because the water was so cold too. It was still kinda funny.

This is a stick she found and decided to play with for a while. She was having a blast.

This is in Mesa Verde in Colorado and it was pretty neat. We hiked down to this ruin called the Spruce Tree House. They date from 1200-1300ad. We were allowed to get pretty close to this one so that is cool. The hike kind of sucked though (man am I a wuss).

On Tuesday we spent the day in Farmington NM and we found this tiny little children's science museum. They had some fun stuff for little kids though including a whole section filled with soft toys and slides etc for kids under 5 that Bryn LOVED (in the background of this picture). She could run and climb and not get hurt and she played for an hour and a half and we still had to drag her out of there. One of the exhibits had a wind blower and she thought it was cool.

And here we are at the 4 corners on Wednesday. We walked round and bought some Indian jewelry for way too much money and then ate some hot fry bread. Yum.

And we also went to Canyon de Chelly on Wednesday and camped there. It was nice and rained a lot, but we froze that night. Here we are at one of the overlooks.

And this is the whole group of us at the painted desert/petrified forest on Thursday. It wasn't that cool, but it was nice to see it once.

And on Friday we were in Flagstaff and went to the Riordan mansion. We just walked around and took pictures since I had already been there and taking a 17 month old into a house full of untouchable antiques did not sound fun at all. This is us by an old wheel.
Bryn
And us on a rock. She wouldn't look at the camera though.
We really enjoyed the nice weather and all the rain that we got. On the down side we all had to sleep in the same room basically with Bryn and so we couldn't move and once she was asleep no one could use the bathroom. It was crazy. And by Thursday we were all sick of each other and we were constantly singing the Backyardigans episodes that we watched over and over so Bryn would stop yelling at being stuck in her car seat. Those dang songs are so catchy. It was fun but I don't know that I will be doing it again with a toddler anytime soon.