We have traveled around the SE for lacrosse tournaments in the past but this year we had the opportunity to travel to Denver, CO for one. I think it was one of my favorite. We tried to make it a family vacation as well, so we traveled in early the day before and spent some time exploring.
We headed down to Rock Park in Castle Rock and did a little hiking.
See that big rock in the background? Yup, the boys climbed all the way to the top. Ethan and I made it to the base of the rock while Jason, Jack and Wyatt climbed up top.
Ethan and I messing around waiting on the other boys.
Photos of the boys up top.
Our first game was an evening game, so we had most of the day to explore and get used to the altitude (which definitely got to the boys once they got on the field). The fun part of having good friends on the same lacrosse team is you get to explore together. We all drove up to Red Rocks to explore around the amphitheater. And yes, we climbed up all those steps.
Jason with Ethan on his shoulders part of the way too!
It was absolutely stunning here!
I would LOVE to come back and enjoy a concert...
Our nighttime game was a disaster. The boys had a hard time with the air, the reffing seemed to be a little off and we soon realized that how we play lacrosse in the south is very different from how they play lacrosse in everywhere else. We need to toughen it up down here for sure!
I had to snap a photo of this two story pizza truck in they had in the vendor area. They made the pizza's up top and sold them down below. It was so cool.
Sunday we celebrated Father's Day on the lacrosse field.
We all enjoyed this Denver ref sporting his cowboy hat!
The team...
The team with their dads.
We were done early on Sunday so we hopped in the car and drove up to Boulder to explore and have some lunch. It was a bit drizzly but nothing we couldn't deal with. It was a very cute town and being from Seattle, Jason and I loved being up in the mountains.
Ethan really loved all the statues of animals throughout the downtown area.
His favorite part of the day was finding this little park of animals and then copying their poses. He did every animal several times.
When you don't have any tv's to watch in the car you actually have to look out the window.
And realize you enjoy it!
We drove up the mountains a ways and followed along this river!
It was so beautiful!!
We had almost all day on Monday as well so we found a candy factory and went through their tour, which we all really enjoyed.
Especially Ethan!
We drove into downtown Denver but there wasn't really too much to see so we found a park to hang out in until it was time to head to the airport. Ethan was having a rough time but Jack and Wyatt loved the big trees to climb!!
Can you find Jack up there?
And Wyatt?
This was probably one of my favorite trips. And the good news is that Jack is on the same team for next summer, so hopefully we can do it again next summer!!
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