Rocky Mountain National Park

We left Denver on Wednesday and drove to Rocky Mountain National Park. The drive was beautiful and as we approached the park we noticed the hue thunderheads rolling in. We entered the park and stopped along the road several times to look at the view, the higher up we got the colder it got. I dug out the jackets from the back of the car and we went to the top of the mountain.  We were supposed to met up with Tammy and Kathleen somewhere along the way but as soon as we got into the park we lost cell service. We looked around the visitors center for awhile and saw some elk in the distance. The bad weather was really starting to roll in and so we decided to keep going and see if we could find K & T. As soon as we started to roll out of the parking lot they pulled in, lucky break. Tully and Tessa immediately broke into happy hysterics and as kids started piling out of various cars the rain finally let loose and in minutes we were all soaked and running to the shelter of the visitors center. We left from there and started down the mountain, we stopped and did a nice steep hike on the tundra. The view was amazing and the wildflowers were beautiful!

On our way down we watched pika, and marmots running around and all the kids thought they were so cute and funny. 

We ended the day pulling into our campsite at 9:30 pm!