Vacation

Day One: We drove to Michigan City, IN to catch a train to Chicago. Once in Chicago we had to catch the "L" to get from the downtown loop to Midway Airport. We got through check-in and security in just under 45 minutes and then ate lunch and went to our gate to wait for our flight to Denver International Airport. By this time, little David was done traveling for the day. That posed a problem considering we had another 5 hours to travel. After being awake for 7 hours he slept in my arms at our gate for 30 minutes. Unfortunately, that was not quite enough and our 2.5 hour flight was a bit rough. There were 2 other babies on board so our little guy wasn't the only one to act up. Take off was the worst because the change in cabin pressure hurt his ears. We landed in Denver at 4pm and met up with our Aunt Linda who drove us back to her house where we were staying. My poor boy is trying so hard to be good right now, but he's soooo tired! :( We crashed in the basement at my Aunt's house and watched TV. We are so tired that I don't think we were capable of much else at this point. :)

Day Two: Up at 6am and head straight to breakfast. After that we all hit showers/baths and got dressed. We are fighting some serious jet lag today. We are exhausted and not feeling very well. Kinda in a haze. We pretty much sat around all day and let the baby nap a lot. He discovered the cat today. He kept yelling "Dog! Dog!". I never did get him to say "Cat". We were finally up for some sight seeing around 5pm. We grabbed a little dinner and went out to see Lookout Mountain. It was sooo pretty! It looks over all of Denver and the surrounding area - and it's beautiful!!! We saw some Denver mountain deer while we were out. They are nothing like the fat, well-fed, fraidy-cat white tail deer we have here at home. They were just eating in someone's front yard and decided to wander into the road in front of our car. We slammed on the brakes and waited for them to mosey past. How funny! That is not quite how it goes at home.

Day Three: We are rested up now and wanting to get get out and about. My little guy slept very well. That's good cuz we are planning a long drive through the mountains today. We went to Breckenridge, the Continental Divide and Loveland Pass. We hit nearly 12,000 feet and the temp dropped from 62 degrees to 39 degrees. The air is so dry here that it doesn't feel cold so I'm still in a T-shirt standing here in the snow. HA! That doesn't happen at home. After our mountain adventure we got lunch and took a little nap then headed out to take a walk by a nearby lake. We got back at 5:30 and put the baby down for another nap......he ended up sleeping all night and I didn't hear anything from him until 6:30am! Wow! He was tired.

Day Four: We went out exploring downtown Denver while Uncle Tom and Stacy stayed home with my napping boy. We saw Mile High Stadium! How cool! We ate a quick lunch then headed out to the airport. We planned it just right to only have to sit and wait for 15 minutes at our gate, but T-storms in Albuquerque, NM held up our plane and our flight was delayed by 1.5 hours. Ugh! That meant that our train in Chicago was going to be pushed back a bit too. Instead of catching the 7:10pm train we had to get on the 8:40pm train. This put us back into Michigan City, IN at 10:30pm and we still had an hour and a half to drive to get home! With all the time zone changes and such factored in, we didn't get home until almost 2am.

We were exhausted and ready for bed when we got home. It was good to get away from home and to see family, but I don't think I could do it again without my huzband. He is such a help and I really need him! It took about 4 days for us to get used to eating and sleeping in the Eastern time zone again. It may have been only a 4 day vacation, but it really threw us off! We are all settled in now and life is back to normal. Home Sweet Home!