Colorado Trip-Heading Home

Friday our vacation was mostly over. We got up in the morning, packed up, and started to head home. Kaelyn took her morning nap while we drove and when she fell asleep so did I. Sean, therefore, was left without a navigator. And, therefore, we took a few detours! :) Instead of taking shorter routes we headed straight north to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Around lunch time we stopped at a camper store and then we HAPPENED to see a sign for Chick-Fil-A so we stopped there for lunch. Yeah!

We went a bit farther to Ft. Collins and looked for somewhere to let Kaelyn out to run around for awhile. We found a neat downtown area but couldn't find anywhere to park the camper so we ended up heading back to the interstate. We found a rest stop that had some trails and wooded areas so she played ball there for awhile. We didn't make a lot of progress. We drove for like 6 hours and when I did a search it said that drive should have taken 2 1/2 hours. Too many worthless detours!

We landed in Sidney, Nebraska for the night at Cabela's. They allow campers in their parking lot AND they have a campground right there as well. We would have just camped in the parking lot but it was SO hot we decided to try to get a spot at the campground so we could hook up and have AC all night without running the generator. It was really stinking hot. Welcome back humidity! I did not miss you ONE little bit!

Kaelyn enjoyed running around Cabela's for quite some time. She found a big red dog ball (of all things) with a handle and she greatly enjoyed tossing that around the store. She also found stairs that led up to a loft where people were sitting and eating. It'd been awhile since she'd had very many stairs to climb so she went pretty crazy over those! They had a fish tank there too and she watched them for a short while. But at that point she was still distracted by the dog ball. :)

We went to Dairy Queen nearby for supper and then set up the camper for the night. There was a nice playground on the campgrounds so, even though it was hot, we HAD to play. There was no swing, much to Kaelyn's dismay, but there were
a couple of slides. However, the sun was so hot they were BURNING. So I wouldn't let her slide down alone. She was happy enough going down with me. I knew enough to stay on my shorts and feet so I wouldn't get burned. She would have screamed all the way down! And, actually, one of the slides had a turn in it and I ended up peeling some skin off my elbow so I was even more glad I was her ride down!

There were actually people tent camping right next to us. In that heat, that was pretty nuts, if you ask me! That's REAL camping, though. We have all the perks in our camper. We don't camp in discomfort, that's for sure!

We knew the trip was REALLY close to being over. We only had about 6 hours to go the next day to get home. So sad to see it ending. It went by way too fast.