Colorado - Day 2

The day began with swimming at the hotel pool in Boulder. That meant some trick jumping...

... and a few moments of contemplation.

Then we went tubing in Lyons. This was Lindsay after a rough ride merrily down the stream. Raisins helped.

It was starting to rain on Ellen, Isaac, and Sam, as they made the last run of the day. It was an eventful one.

Isaac looking back to check on Ellen.

Sam Coffin: the picture of sympathy.

Didn't she have glasses when her journey began? Why, yes, she did.

Here she is telling us that she lost her glasses and ripped her bathing suit. Here ended the tubing portion of our trip.

Nathan and a rock from the creek.

Aven.

Nathan and Aven. You'll notice that Aven is stooping to pick up the box of raisins she dropped.

Here she still has the box, but something about the wetness of her diaper, the surface and grade of incline of the slide, as well as some stuff about mass and acceleration all combined to make it too fast a ride for her liking. She lost most of the raisins, as you can see here, and shot off the slide, landing on her back. It was of little comfort to her that her uncle was a foot away, with a camera in his hands, nor was it of any help.

So now the tubes are being used for a game they were calling "wipeout."

It's a pretty bouncy game.

And not easy.

And there are many ways to play.

One of my favorite pictures of the whole trip.

And then on the drive home -- I honestly don't remember this -- the Apocalypse happened. But it didn't last very long.

See? The sun came out. All's well.

These last four are from our third day in Colorado. I think I was telling Nathan about whitewater rafting when I took this. We had just come back, with Poppy and the three older kids.