Our trip to CO, day 4
July 11th – Saturday
We left RV Ranch in search of Starbucks and The West Colorado Botanical Gardens. We wandered a bit and did not feel especially enamored by the environs there in Grand Junction, so we hit the Starbucks and forewent the Botanical Gardens in favor of perusing the local antique mall. It was a good one. I picked out a really pretty ivory and pink wool blanket, a couple of books, blah, blah, blah. Sid found some cool stuff, Jonny got “those army dudes,” Ave got nice dollhouse furniture that I swear I must have had as a girl, it’s so familiar, and Miss June got a Mickey Mouse purse. So fun!
We headed back out onto the 70 and stopped in Rifle. What a cute town! Old, clean and right on the Colorado River. Sid fell in love with it and spoke dreams of retiring nearby on a farm with horses (I’d like to know how many months of the year it’s covered in snow before I make my decision to join him in those dreams)! So far, Rifle was Sid’s favorite town we’d encountered.
The boys fished right there on the river, beneath the bridge that carries cars from the highway into town. The girlies and I just messed around. Aveline loves to be around the fishing, but would climb the river bank to visit me and June, too. I was very much enjoying watching a storm approach. I attempted the nearly impossible, to catch a shot of lightning. No success, but fun anyhow. I’ll never fully understand the deep affection I have for thunder storms, and I refuse to try to understand it, I just take ‘em when I can get ‘em and love it.
Jonny came so very, very close to catching a fish, he could barely handle the situation! He still talks about that one that got away!
Sid caught a rainbow trout before the wind became turbulent, blasting dirt into our eyes and casting flocks of birds and little leaves into swirling flight, and it started to rain. The lightning was magnificent as it came so close! Again, I tried to get a shot, to no avail. Jonny made sure to urge me to write in this journal about the “crazy storm!” It was so cool and warm!
That night we drove, in search of a campground, beyond all weariness and beyond all queasiness. Uck! We ended up desperately parking right off a winding mountain road in Idaho Springs, right next to a rumbling river . . . little did we know the most glorious environs awaited our exploration when we would wake . . .
A spring in his step
Serene sky
Riverbank beauty
I loved getting to watch it approach, the furthest mount would disappear in grey, as the closer began to fade
Sid and his catch
Cute
I wish I could post this picture big enough to show the swirling birds, can you see the little black specks?
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July 27th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Jenn, I’ve so enjoyed looking over your recent posts! Looks like the Stankovits clan is having a fun, adventurous time. Your kids are cute as ever… and Junie is getting so big! Lots of love to you guys.
July 27th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
The first fish I ever caught…only fish I ever caught was a rainbow trout in some river in CO. We brought it home and cooked it for dinner. Mmmm! Very bony.