Spring Break Trip

Grammy and Papa are celebrating 50 years of marriage this coming summer on June 6, 2019. To celebrate, they arranged for a trip to Colorado over spring break this last March. With record snowfall in the Fairplay/Breckenridge areas this winter, we were in for an interesting trip. Needless to say, we were thankful we decided to take the 4-wheel drive truck!

Our cabin was awesome, but we had a 20 min. drive up a mountain to get there. With so much snowfall, we passed stuck, snowbound vehicles every time we went up or down! Thankfully, that was never our story.

Even with some elevation sickness and tricky roads, we did enjoy plenty during our stay: downtime, digging a sled run (thanks to Chelan) and sledding down it, exploring in waist-deep snow, a gondola ride in Breckenridge, first time skiing, and an anniversary celebration complete with a slideshow of over 500 pictures!

After a treacherous drive through the "great bomb cyclone of 2019," we made it to Denver and stopped for the night on our way home. We were never so thankful to stop driving as we were that day! We even had a pretty good time at the hotel with Grammy, Papa, and Dollie that day.

Thank you Mom and Dad for a memorable trip and for making it 50 years together - through all of life's ups and downs!

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