Labor Day Weekend - Steamboat Springs

We went to my now all-time favorite place, Steamboat, for Labor Day weekend. We met my brother Danny and his family there and camped. As you know by now, my type of camping is a nice campground with full hookups and cable TV:-) We had an amazing time and had a ton of fun. Saturday we went into town and shopped at all the stores during their sidewalk sale. It's definitely not as pretentious as Aspen which made me very happy (some mountain towns can be a huge turnoff when the snobby jet-setters arrive) and the shopping alot more fun.

Their inaugural ride in "the back of a pickup truck". Just over to my brother's camper but they thought it was pretty cool! I remember when I got to ride in the back of a pickup truck all the way to the lake... 2 hours away!! Ah.. the good old days...
On Sunday, we went to an airshow at the airport. Who knew Steamboat had an airport?? It was by far the best airshow I've ever been to. It was super small and was filled with old planes with a ton of history. Hunter and Reagan loved it. Not only did they get to ride in a bus (they're into many forms of transportation these days:-) ) but they got to actually see and feel real, live airplanes!!

Reagan and Uncle Danny on the bus
Reagan was in love with "the pink plane". Anything pink and she's all over it!

This was Hunter's fave plane
Okay, so Caitlyn decided she really wanted to ride on one of the planes. I'm talking FLY on one of the planes. I thought it was very cool that they'd give you the opportunity. This one was $45/person for I have no clue how long. So.. she boarded the plane and the plane proceeded to taxi the runway. Except it just kept taxiing and then stopped, turned off it's engines, and off she came. It turned out that one of the old planes that landed before theirs was supposed to take off blew a tire on landing. So.. she did get to ride on the plane... for free!!

Here she is boarding the plane. Check out the dude on the right. We were laughing at him all day because he seriously just stood around like he seriously fried his brain on a really bad drug. Turns out, he was a volunteer. Umm... not sure how much help this kid was...

This was inside one of the planes landing gear area (is that the correct aviation term there?? HA!). These are signatures of military men who flew in the plane. The dates are all in the 1940's. VERY cool!!
Of course there was playing at the park and swimming to be done!

Our campground was right on the river so we hung out there for a bit. Next time we'll bring tubes because it was perfect for tubing. Even for the kids!

Hunter & Ryan looking for crawdads. I had no idea there were crawdads in mountains streams!

Perhaps it's time for those 3T pants as well. The boy just grows TOO fast!

I think the highlight of the trip was going on the Alpine Slide. We took the chair lift up to the top and then went down the side of a mountain on a 2400 foot track... FAST! The first time I went with Hunter and Ryan went with Reagan. When it was all done, Reagan insisted we "GO AGAIN". We went one more time and switched kids. Ryan and I raced down and I mean we were hauling. Hunter kept yelling "YEE HAW!". Reagan and I would have won had I not had to finally use the hand break when we flew around a corner and I had to catch her hat after it flew off. So... Ryan won. We'll get him next time though! We would have kept going had we not run out of money! Reagan was almost to the point of hysteria when we told her we were done but we pointed her to a new park and she mellowed out.

Reagan and I on the chairlift up the mountain

Reagan and Ryan ready to roll!!


Yeah, we may be a crazy family but we have FUN!!!

Ryan beating us down the mountain... barely!
Ryan & Reagan going up the lift.
Caitlyn & Kristi

Luckily there was a park right at the bottom of the alpine slide

Packing up for home. Hunter LOVES to help. Here he is attempting to put the jacks up. As Kristi said, he has amazing eye/hand coordination to do this. That drill is super heavy!