Colorado Days 6-8

Tuesday morning we packed up our stuff and visited Cave of the Winds before heading up to Castle Rock. Cave of the Winds gets its name from the Indians who lived in that area. They said that the god of the wind lived there. We joined a group and took a tour of the cave and learned a little of its discovery.

We saw stalactites, (these have been broken off because people from the original tours took them thinking they would grow back)
stalagmites,
what our tour guide called "cave bacon", (I can't remember the real name)
and lots of other neat stuff





Here's one more silly one
A friend from Jonathan's mission (Will) lives in Castle Rock and we stayed with them for a couple of days. We got there in time to join the family at the pool for swim lessons and play time. It was a fun pool with water slides and stuff for the kids to play on. Wednesday morning we played at the park. Colorado has some cool parks--lots of new toys. Will has 2 girls and the kids had so much fun playing with them. Will wasn't able to get time off like we had originally planned, so we changed our schedule around. We were going to go to the zoo on Saturday, but decided to go on Thursday and hang out with Will on Saturday.

Dyllan threw-up Wednesday night and still wasn't feeling great on Thursday, so we rented a wagon for her to lay down in. By the way, we got lost getting to the zoo. You'll notice that pattern on our trip.
After about 2 pictures the batteries in our camera died. The zoo was probably my favorite day. We got to spend the whole day there, the weather was nice, the kids were happy, and there were a lot of cool animal displays. I loved watching the kids get excited about seeing the animals. Heck, I got excited every time an animal was up and moving around. We saw a tiger eating, a polar bear pacing back and forth behind a wall, a seal swimming, lots of fish, pretty birds, a grizzly bear scratching it's back and a baby zebra. We even heard an elephant trumpet.

Here's the only cute picture from the zoo. It's too bad we didn't bring extra batteries because there were a few Kodak moments.
That was our last day and night in Castle Rock.