Time with Daddy in Colorado!

Nate and Josh spent the last three days in Denver and Colorado Springs, CO! We had plane vouchers about to expire that we wanted to take advantage of, and Nate has always wanted to go on a plane (and now I felt like he's at the age where I was comfortable with the idea, that entertaining would be a lot easier!)

So bright and early Friday morning they left to catch their flight at 7:30am. They spent the majority of the time in Denver that day.

The pilots let him sit in the pilot seat, showed him buttons and screens....he enjoyed that!

Easy entertainment - he spent the whole flight just looking out the window!

They visited a railroad museum -

Then they drove the 1.5 hrs to Colorado Springs. The temperature dropped forty degrees, and, just for Nate, it snowed!

Of course a child from Arizona is going to try and catch snowflakes on their tongue!

Saturday morning they had tickets to ride a train to the top of Pike's Peak. Because of the weather, they weren't able to make it to the very tip top but still made it pretty close.

It snowed again that night - Nate was excited to help daddy with the car the next morning!

Then they explored caves -

And visited a children's museum in Denver -

Room with bubbles

And lastly, headed back to the airport! Nate had a great almost 72 hrs with his dad. He enjoyed the plane ride a lot - thankfully, no turbulence, though he thought upon landing the first time that it was going to be like a roller coaster landing down - but we're glad that wasn't the case ;) Of course now he wants to move to Denver. Hmmmmm. I'm not quite so sure that mama could live with the actual reality of bears being in our backyard....