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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Family Hiking Week in Breckenridge, CO

Indian Paintbrushes

Me and Jenny

Mom with her little brother, Uncle Bill


Me and Baby Jenkins up at 12,000 feet. I was trying to stick my belly out, I wish I was showing!

Beautiful Colorado Columbine flowers!
The fisherman: Adam

Jenny and Uncle Bill kayaking in Lake Dillon


We celebrated Grandma's 84th birthday, check out this cake! Pretty pathetic, but it gave us all a good laugh!

The lower lake on the Mohawk Lake hike





Me and Jenny



The llama sheperd wanted me to kiss the llama, no thank you!


Finally, we got to go on a vacation! It was a much needed vacation; I had been looking forward to this week for so long! My mom planned a family hiking week because she and her brother have always wanted to hike 14ers together. Considering, I have a precious baby developing inside of me, 14ers were definitely not an option for me. But, I was able to do a couple of easy/moderate hikes that took us up to about 12,000 feet. That was the highest elevation I wanted to reach with baby jenkins. We stayed in a beautiful condo, thanks to my Grandma, right on main street in Breckenridge. The ability to walk everywhere from our condo was great! Our days were very active, but we did get the opportunity to rest in the afternoons and evenings. It was the perfect vacation for me. We hiked Lake Mohawk, where we ran into a llama sheperd. They had atleast 8 llamas up on that mountain, pretty bizarre! They were groomed and all, I've never seen llama's so maintained. I biked the trail from Breckenridge to Frisco while Gabe went flyfishing for the first time with our brother in law, Adam and the others hike Yale. I biked the Lake Dillon trail with my mom while Jenny and Uncle Bill kayaked and finally we did a hike called Black Powder Pass. It took us up to the valley between Boreas and Baldy. It was a beautiful hike with wildflowers everywhere! My mom and Uncle are so tough though, they woke up the final morning after all of us had left and went out and hiked another 14er, Mt. Elbert! It was a successful hiking week and great to spend time with family!

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