Autumn & Kalina

This year we went up to Vail for the 4th of July. This was Autumn before we left.  Is she wearing a scarf and hat because it’s cold when we go to the mountains?

Wednesday night we just played at the hotel and walked around.

Thursday morning we got up and headed to Vail Village for a parade!

I got photo bombed by my sister!

Now what are you doing Autumn?

Did you know at this parade they through lots of candy at you to catch?  That was lots of fun!

Near the candy store was a fountain that shot out water.  We sat and watched that for awhile.

Then we hit Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory!  Yummy!

I chose chocolate covered cherries.  Autumn wanted a humongous chocolate chunk with peanut butter inside. Mom got a caramel apple but it was all stuck to the paper when we got back to the hotel.

My hair was a little harder to do in a star today since I cut it shorter, but mom did it.

After we walked around Vail Village we headed back to the hotel to go swimming.  The pool was very crowded and the water was yucky.  (mom says they don’t use chlorine, they use something that makes it salty!)  Before dinner we went to a park to play.  We weren’t big enough to make this teeter totter go, so dad helped us.

Swirly staircases

Tunnels

Slides!

These bouncy things are kinda baby, but we love to ride them.

This time Mom sat on the other side and bounced us.  She even took this picture while we were all bouncing!

After dinner we went back towards Vail for the fireworks.  We stayed out of the Village where the fireworks were being shot off, but we could still see them just fine!  This was Autumn’s first time seeing fireworks.  While we waited for the shuttle back to the hotel she fell asleep, but she got to see the fireworks first!

Hillary is a San Diego photographer that was out visiting in Colorado this spring.  Mom made arrangements to have her take our pictures.  She was a really nice lady and we had fun smiling for her.

Today we went to Larkspur for the Denver Renaissance Festival.  We didn’t know what that was or what was going to be there.  It was full of fun shops, food places, things to do and watch!

As we were walking up to the gate a lady in a fancy dress and a man with a funny shirt stopped to talk to us.

It wasn’t time to go in yet so the people at the top of the castle were talking to us.  When the canon fired we were allowed to go inside.

Before we went inside we saw a fairy outside.  She gave us each a magic rock and sprinkled fairy dust on it.

There were all kinds of people dressed up in costumes.  We were a little worried about taking a picture with this “bull”.  Dad came with us!

We found a boat swing to ride on.We helped the man by pulling a rope.

Do you see us in the dragon mouth?  We walked through a maze to get to the dragon slide.  We tried by ourselves at first, but daddy had to come in and help us find our way.

In the kids area there was a butterfly ride.  This ride didn’t have a motor.  The 2 girls working there pushed us around in a circle.  We each got a turn to ride in the rainbow butterfly.

Then we rode the animals.  There was a pony, donkey, and llama’s.  I chose the donkey!

This was a Shetland horse.  She pulls the carriage in the parade and rests in the petting zoo area during the day.

I found a moo cow to pet.

Here are the pigs.  I didn’t pet them, but I read the sign for their pen.

This animal is a yak.  There was a highland cow that I got to pet.  Autumn was busy listening to the bell man while I checked out the animals.  There were also chickens, a rooster, a turkey, llamas, rabbits, ducks, and donkeys too.

This is the carillon.  It’s bells that a man played music on.

Here is the jousting arena.

These were the maidens and queen coming to the show.

Here come the horses!

Our knight was Sir Joseph.

After this show we walked over and saw part of the Endangered Cats show.

We found a face painting lady.  Autumn chose strawberries and I chose cherries.

While we were walking the parade came by.  See the horse I pet earlier?

Can you believe there was an elephant in the parade?

On the way out we stopped to take a picture.

While we were doing that a lady ran up and got in our picture!

Here’s our magic fairy stones!