Monday, May 25, 2015

Estes Park, Colorado Trip


Looking up to Trail Ridge Drive
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On Trail Ridge Drive
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The moms with their kids.
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Henry, Brooks and Stanford
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 Henry loved to give hugs to his cousins. 
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Wandered around the Stanley Hotel. This is the Hotel that the Shining was based on. Dumb and Dumber was also filmed here. 
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At Lily Lake. 
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 Did a little fishing. 
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Outside of our cabin. 
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Spent a day at the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver. 
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Walked around Bear Lake. 
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 Thanks mom and dad Smoot for the fun trip!


Wednesday, April 01, 2015

New Orleans Trip



New Orleans Botanical Gardens
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Shayla came with us on the trip. It was awesome having her there. She was so helpful. 
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Jackson Square - French Quarter

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Cafe Du Monde Eating Beignets!

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Sausage Dog

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                                                                     Ate a Muffuletta in the French Market!

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Oysters, Craw-fish, Shrimp, and Cat Fish

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Went on a Swamp Tour

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Saw lots of Alligators! 

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And some Turtles
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The Swamp tour was one of our favorite parts of the trip. Beautiful Place.
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Generally Henry Struggled with being in his car seat so much!

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This picture kind of defines his other state of being.

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But sometimes he was like this. 

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Handsome man Will

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We spent a couple days in Baton Rouge! Went to the Zoo.

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Saw big alligators. 

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                                                                       Buffalo too!
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Will loved seeing the Giant Turtles! 

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Spent Saturday morning in downtown Baton Rouge.

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They were having a music fest party with lots of live music.

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Will could not help himself. 

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We found a big hill to roll down.

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This was the old state capitol building for Louisiana. Mary said that Mark Twain said it was the ugliest building east of the Mississippi. 

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They had a big slide. 

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In total we hit seven states for this trip: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri.

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In Little Rock in front of Capitol building. 

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We went to the Clinton Presidential Library.

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We had a fun trip overall. One of our other favorite parts of the trip was eating the hotel breakfasts. The kids loved the waffle machine every morning. I liked the fruit loops. Will likes fruit loops also. Mary liked not doing the dishes for a week. It was so awesome to have Shayla with us for the whole trip. She was so helpful and kind in helping the kids. We will have to bring her with us in the future!

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