YMCA Estes Park

 We took the kids Fall Break and spent it in Estes Park.  We have lived in Colorado for almost 10 years now and have never been to Estes Park.  We had heard that the YMCA there is a lot of fun, so we checked it out.  The kids were excited to have two bunk beds in our room and fought over the top bunk, most of the time they all ended up on one together.

 They had staff there to do classed with the kids on all sorts of different nature subjects.

 Jackie, Dallin, and Brea all made these cute head wraps with stamps of different creatures footprints.  They learned about each footprint and were able to see quite a few outside.

 We also spent a lot of time in the craft room.  There were all sorts of crafts to choose from and all the kids enjoyed a little artwork.

 Our four YMCA kids we had just the right amount!

 Brea has been doing her back bend anywhere and everywhere she can, even in front of the YMCA sign.

 Alyssa couldn't do most of the classes but she hiked around with us, swam, and enjoyed yummy food from the cafeteria for FREE!

 We went on one last hike before heading home.  We had to literally pull the kids along, none of them wanted to hike, but Dad was persistent and made them.  We hiked right into this ropes course, and boy did that change their attitude.

Dallin and Jackie both made these really neat mosaics in the craft room.  It took a lot longer than I thought, but turned out really neat.
We will have great memories of our time at the YMCA.  One of the highlights was one of the class instructors. He was funny and a good teacher, he knew is nature and made it fun.  The neat thing was that he was blind, but he still led these classes with the kids.  They would hold his hand and help in along the path.  The night we left, he (Colt) told a story while the other staff acted it out.  It was so funny and he had so much detail.  He couldn't see and could barely hear what was going on, but he still kept going and entertaining a whole audience.  He was an inspiration to me and I don't know if the kids even realized the limitation he had because he was so fun and good.