Summertime! There is quite a lot happening over here in our trailerhood. I have been so excited foer Summer for the pure reason of warm weather and no homeschool but after 5 days of it, I gotta say Summer is exhausting! I'll take ya full circle on our shenanigans. Yesterday, we had to move to a new trailerpark. Which is actually a mobile home park Dun, Dun Dun! We moved to Denver last summer and discovered how insanely hard it is to find a monthly spot for a fifth wheel in the summertime. Denver is actually having quite a boom and even the rental market is extremely difficult to get into here. Yes, there are a lot of workers, family vacationers, snowbirds but there's just a lot of people! Did you know that I have met quite a few families that are from Denver, living in fifth wheels? It's just not an option I realized people were taking. Choosing to live in a fith wheel , in your home town. Anyway, it is very hard to have a spot for the summertime so I started looking in January. That's right, and even then people told me they were already booked, but try back to see if anyone had canceled. I was on waiting lists at several places. The park we stayed in all Winter and Spring doesn't allow monthly campers in the Summer. Two weeks at a time is the maximum stay. Then you have to leave for at least a day before you come back. This did not sound like a good plan with Ian's work schedule. It kinda made me resentful at all of these vacationers. "Go sleep in a hotel, this is my life, not my vacation!" I realize that it's silly to be frustrated with them. I hope to be one of them someday. But for now they are a great source of entertainment. People camp differently when they are on vacation as opposed to living in a fifth wheel. Sometimes they lock up all their storage and give you the evil eye, sometimes we are serenaded by people singing around the barbecue. One of our favorite activities is watching young couples back up their rigs, it's very funny to see the frustration , when it's not you. Okay so my point is, I had to find a somewhat crappy park to move into for the Summer , while all the campers had some of the best parks in Colorado at a maximum for 2 weeks at a time. Then I had an epiphany, if you can't beat them, join them. I decided we would move around to all of these parks all summer long! Ian reminded me how much work that would be and how frustrating it could be if something went wrong and we ended up sleeping in Wal Mart's Parking lot so we came up with a compromise. I booked 2 trips to Colorado State Parks in the Denver area for 2 weeks each. We also got a spot at this Mobile home park that will be our spot the whole Summer and we can come and go as we please. Yesterday we moved into the mobile home park and it was a lot of work, moving. Ian is usually right. I am excited we have little vacations to look forward to but it was very wise to have a place to land. Even securing this spot was like trying to get the management to release a nugget of gold. It is seriously ridiculous over here in Denver.
On another note, Ian has about 6 more months until he is able to test to become a Journeyman Lineman. So from what my family tells me, this will most likely be our last Summer in Colorado. So I have a list of things I want to do. It amazes me that we have been in one area this long, (knock on wood everybody....no seriously) The advantage is that I actually have had time to form a list of things I want to do, instead of just being overwhelmed at being in a new city.
Here's my list:
Waterfall Hike ( I don't know where it is, but I saw it on Pinterest)
Narrow Gorge train Ride
The Incline
Train Museum in Golden
Children's Museum in Denver
Buffalo Bills Museum with a picnic on Lookout Mountain
Denver's Aquarium
Water World
Pirates Cove
Bowling
National Sand Dune Park
Mt Rushmore - It's only 5 hours away, will I seriously ever be closer?
The Elvis Movie theater- I don't know what this entails but I already bought the Groupon
Slip N Slide
Public Pools
Library Program
Sleep over for the boys
Rockies Game with a trolley ride
Heritage square Park
Picnic in Wash Park
Quite a list right? Here's the exhausting part. In the past 5 days we've already:
Had a picnic with friends
Went to a water park
ate Ice cream out of the cartons
Made a homemade volcano and watched it explode twice
Had a water fight
Went to the History Park in Golden where we : walked on stilts, played with a bean bag toss, used slingshots and panned for gold
watched Ian at work setting poles with a helicopter
Walked to town for an ice cream cone
went to the skate park and the batting cages
and of course we moved which includes a deep cleaning of the trailer
So yeah I'm tired and I'm not sure my list of things to do is going to quench my kids voracious appetite for adventure but today we start with Houston attending a Kayak Summer camp. Is that not the coolest thing you've ever heard of?
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First day of Kayak camp
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| our very own volcano, this kids is always down for anything |
Keep checking on me, I'm gonna need a whole lot of coffee to get through Summer
