Cookin' & Climbin'

This day, we did some cookin' in the Devil's Kitchen, pictured here. It's part of the Colorado National Monument, near Grand Junction, CO.

















The kids found this neat rock formation and of course it was a perfect picture opportunity having them all in the crack of the rock.














It was a hot day, the warmest since we've been here and in the high desert - it was toasty. So we took a break in the shade of an overhanging rock.










Once we got inside the 'kitchen' up the hill there was an awesome cool breeze blowing through. Another good picure opportunity.













After a delicious picnic lunch. We headedover to KidzPlex, an indoor place for the kids to play - in the A/C. They had all sorts of climbing walls for everyone to play spiderman. Here Sarah makes it to the top of one of them.










Under the walls, was a 'cave' climbing area. Here's Natalie showing off her climbing prowess!












Bekah is showing us how well she can climb.

















Sarah made it to the top of the climbing cave.



















Joelle was a climbing fool! Up and down, up and down. "Daddy, belay me please." Here she made it to the top of a pretty tall one.
















Mom snapped this photo of Doreen and I 'belaying' Joelle and Natalie as they climbed a wall side by side.