Author: Jeeping and RVing in Colorado

Today we went to Silverton, CO and Daddy, Jeffie and Jeff went in the Old Hundred Mine Tour.  I stayed outside with the newest member of our family, Scooter.  He’s a 9 week old Cockapoo.  We got him about a week ago.

The mine tour went well and they enjoyed it.  We saw two mountain goats and two baby mountain goatswhen leaving the mine tour.  After the mine tour, we went to Animas Fork.  We saw a lot of beautiful sights, including some cute Marmots.

Afterward, we had lunch outside at Natalia’s 1912 Restaurant, did some shopping and then enjoyed a little ice cream.  We were wiped out by the end of the day.

Today we went to the newest National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison. It’s about an hour and fifteen minutes away from us. Jeffie had a hard time looking at the scenery since the drop offs were so steep. We also saw a black bear and got a pretty good look at it as it was feasting on some red berries.

Today we went down State Road 550 to County Rd 31A to Yankee Girl Mine. 550 has steep drop offs and the County Rd isn’t like county roads back home. Jeff and I have been this way before up to Yankee Girl Mine and posted about it. But let’s just say Jeffie is afraid of heights and leave it at that. She did good though. We are so glad they are here!

Daddy and Jeffie made it today. So happy to see familiar faces. They made it here in 5 days and they are still standing. They are here for a week so we will post pics! The other two pics were taken today also.

It rained and hailed again today and the river rose and there were two mudslides south of Ouray that closed down Hwy 550. Wow! I have never been anywhere where the river rose so fast. It’s been several hours and and the river is still raging. Take a look at the video.

Some much needed rain and a little hail in Ouray today!!

We walked downtown yesterday with Jeff2 & Kim2 for the Ouray 4th of July Parade.  It was such a great time and with a town of less than 1,000 people the turnout was HUGE.  We estimate about 5,000 people were at the parade.   It lasted about an hour and it was one gigantic WATER FIGHT!  The firefighters and different people in the parade sprayed water on the spectators and the spectators defended themselves!  They had trash cans and buckets full of water and water shooters to fire back at them.  It was hilarious!  They then had sack races and other old timey games for the kids at the park.  The most shocking thing that happened today was when 2 F16 fighter jets buzzed the parade route by coming right between the two mountains Ouray is nestled between on Hwy 550.  They were zigzagging through the mountains and were well below the mountain tops.  The one picture is when the 2nd one was on the way back up.  It was much closer than the picture shows.   Such a great Independence Day celebrating our freedom and remembering all of those that fought for us so that we can have it.