Colorado-Day 6

Day 6, we headed up to one of my favorite little towns in the mountains, Estes Park. I love this beautiful, quaint town. Would love to own a 2nd home here someday. :-)
Approaching Estes...

Estes is also home to the beautiful Stanley Hotel which is where the Jack Nicholson movie, "The Shining" was filmed.
After spending some time in Estes, we then headed up to the Rocky Mountain National Forest. We went up to one of our favorite spots, Bear Lake.

Collin and Carter were obsessed with chasing chipmunks along our hike. They both can make the clicking sound the chipmunks make now. :-)

We then hiked up to another lake....not sure what the name of this one was...

Collin kept collecting pinecones and putting them in all the little chipmunk holes we found. He was so proud that he was helping take care of the chipmunk population. This probably added an additional 30 minutes to our time. :-)

Collin...aka....The Chipmunk

We took the rode to the highest point they would allow us to go. The road past this was closed because of the weather or potential of bad weather. I love how you can see the shadows of the clouds. It was very cold up here.

On our way back down, this cow elk jumped out in the road literally next to my window. I screamed as Josh drove past. He backed the vehicle up so I could take a picture of this "beast" that almost caused an accident. :-)

Beautiful Colorado

We got back into Estes Park and happened to catch all these elk on the golf course!

We then headed back to have dinner with Josh's cousin Brandon and his wife Keri. We had a great time, had a wonderful dinner and the boys even got in a little wrestling time with Josh and Brandon.

Brandon and Keri with the boys