Colorado Springs

One thing we struggle with as a family is where to eat when we travel. There's only so much a family can store in little hotel refrigerators.

I have to say that this is the best trip we've had for eating out. It wasn't until the end of our trip I started to risk eating less healthy. I sure did pay for it.

In Colorado Springs I saw that they had a place in their main shopping strip called Heart of Jerusalem Cafe. I'm all for trying different types of food, so we went there.

I got a salad and coffee. OMG they both were good.

I wish they had a website I could link up to, but they don't have one.

After that we decided to go to a castle: Miramont Castle Museum.

I do have to say that Daddy and I were envisioning the castle to be different than it was. We thought it was going to be just an old castle to walk through. It was more just a castle shell, with a museum inside it.

It was one of Mica's favorite spots. He enjoyed it so much because they had a scavenger hunt for him to fill out. Let me tell you he wouldn't let us move on unless the prior question was answered. In fact one question got overlooked, and he had to got back down a floor to find the answer. Then it took us awhile to find something that was behind an open door. He was really into it.

So if you have a shop, gallery, or museum a scavenger hunt for kids to fill out may solve some problems for active children.

Here are some of the things they had in the museum:

In the end of the scavenger hunt a gentleman looked over Mica's answers to see if he had them all right or not. Then Mica and Isaak got to pick out 2 pieces of vintage candy. They were so excited.

Garden of the Gods

Our main destination for day 2 of our trip was Garden of the Gods. It's located in Colorado Springs. What's great is that the park beautiful, and if you are on a budget it's free.

The boys really loved Garden of the Gods! They love climbing around on rocks. Some of the other parks we went to, there was no touching. This one you could touch, climb, and we had a blast.

I just love all the layers int this photo!

Mica and Daddy checking out the map. They are the best at navigating. We ended up just walking and climbing all over the place. Everything was pretty.

It started out green and got more and more rocky.

The rocks got so steep that they couldn't be climbed by us.

 

Other people were climbing those talk rocks. Mica wanted to join them.

 There were other other rocks that just jetted up. They looked like rockets about to take off.

Then there were rocks that people could hide in.

Have you been to the Garden of the Gods?