Leadville, Colorado

A few weeks ago we ventured to Leadville, CO for another one of Jake's races.

Leadville is North Americas highest incorporated city at with an elevation of 10,430 feet. It gets about 310 days of sunshine each year with temps rarely over 80 degrees. Leadville is a legendary frontier mining town with lots of history.

Strolling the streets
We found a fun little restaurant, High Mountain Pies. It was perfect for us. Picnic tables in the back with a play ground set and big yard for the kids to run wild.

Campbell hadn't had pizza yet, but he screamed his head off threw his food off the table and climbed onto the table to GET him some pizza. Can you tell he found it quite yummy.

We had a fun time. It was our first stay in a ONE room hotel room. Their idea of a suite is just a big room, which for some reason had a big jacuzzi tub in it. As you can see the boys didn't mind the tub one bit.

But, putting kids to bed at their bed time makes for an interesting situation when they can see each other. Finally, after moving Campbell's pack-in-play as far away from Spen's bed as possible they went to sleep. And well, so did we. I woke up at 12am and felt like I had slept a full night. I should go to sleep earlier more often.

Waiting to cheer for Daddy. I think Campbell was taking a quick snooze! They had fun playing in the dirt with several other little boys. I think they had enough sand in their clothes to fill a sand box! Jake did great. He came in second in his age group and missed first by only 2 seconds! He was 10th over all.

A big highlight of the trip was that we got to see one of my Mom's best friends from college, her son, daughter-in-law and grandson!! Small world!! She was in Leadville visiting her son and his family who have lived there for a while. It was great to see the Costilows! Spencer loved Gabriel and keeps saying he has the best tow truck ever! I absolutely hate we didn't get a picture with them!

It was a fun weekend. I love getting to see different places around Colorado.