Colorado Vacation, Part I

We have both dogs and both cats with us on this vacation. It takes 14 hours to drive from San Diego to western Colorado, and the trip felt surprisingly relaxed, easy, and quick this time.

Everest sits between us on a pillow and likes to sniff the AC.

 When he's tired of the AC he turns around. He stayed here most of the trip, with occasional trips to the back of the car or to the passenger's lap.

Zebulon typically does not do well in the car. He screams pathetically and loudly, drools, barfs, and is very stressed. He did drool a bit this trip but not excessively. There was no screaming and he didn't barf. We had him stay in the back seat with the dogs, maybe that helped. He was still not very happy. I never drug him, I tried that when he was younger but hated what it did to him. He's better not being drugged.

 For the first time ever on a car trip, he laid down and was very relaxed near the end of the trip. The last hour he took over Everest's spot and slept, laid stretched out and very relaxed.

Denali and Kaytu always do well. Denali makes funny "oh my gosh we're in the car and we're going somewhere and I'm so happy!" faces and Kaytu makes bored, "are we there yet?" faces.

14 hours leaves lots of time to find awkward sleeping positions. Zeb insisted on laying between the bed and crate, which folded down the bed into the seat. The seat has a cover which is tan, and the bottom of the bed is tan so it's tough to see the difference but Zeb is folding down the bed. The blue blanket is on the seat.

We got in late at about 10:00pm and my in-laws' dogs were already tucked in and sleeping for the night so they didn't get to play until the morning. They had a blast!

Harley is "toothy" when he plays! The girls gave him space when he was uncomfortable.

 

After letting the dogs play and romp, we decided to go rock climbing. The dogs did not come as being at the edge of cliffs would have been a bit dangerous for them. Too tough to keep an eye on them and keep them safe. My husband and his father rappelled down the cliff face which is about 40'. His mom and I climbed down through a nice crevice. At the bottom they both tried climbing back up and both got about halfway. Then I tried and made it about halfway up, hub tried again and made it! Then his mom tried and also made it about halfway. At about the halfway point the cliff became very sheer with not much to grab or put your feet on, except for a large crack. Only hub had the experience and muscle to do it! Hub and his dad both rappelled down again.

Crack we could climb down to get to the bottom

Hubby at the bottom of the crack

Rappelling! Top of the cliff

My father in-law

 

Climbing back up

 

 

 

Father in-law

Hubby

My turn! Using my reach

 

Mother in-law

We all had a lot of fun! Once home the dogs got to play again.

That was all on Wednesday. Thursday morning hub and his dad headed off for a camping trip and they're spending 2 nights out at the Maroon Bells. His mom and I went to Ridgeway to a reservoir with the dogs but we were only there half an hour before the rain started. We went home, hung out for a bit, went out to Qdoba for a girl date, walked around main street, and then watched the Broncos preseason game. Today we didn't do much of anything, we went to Walmart so she could get more yarn as she's making awesome scarves for her 2nd grade students. I'll be mushing Kaytu when it's cool enough. It's 75 right now and I won't run her at all if it's over 70. She really needs it!