Keystone

Our Colorado Smith family was out of school for Columbus Day (or Indigenous Peoples Day) so we planned a long weekend with them.  In the past we have met them in Moab, but this year we decided to vacation in Keystone, Colorado.  In retrospect Moab might have been a better choice.  Keystone has elevation of over 9000 feet and it was COLD that weekend. We didn't do as much outdoors as we might have wanted, but we got lots of family time, which the whole point for me.

There was some serious board game time. I am not a board game enthusiast, but it was fun to watch 3 generations try to outsmart each other.

We had two indoor pool days, but I only took the camera for one. Calvin and Zach execute a nice synchronized dive.

Lucy takes a jump

Family hot tub time

We also took a short family hike.  I don't think we ever found the trail we were looking for, but this trail was fun.  Lucy is a serious hiker and loves to hike the dirt trails. Especially if she has to bash her way through the deep jungle grass. Of course at Lucy's height all grass is deep jungle grass.

Along the way we found a road cut with a shale layer containing fossils and took time for some serious fossil hunting.

I'm not sure that Lucy knew what was going on, but she was willing to dig right in.

I think Austin found the best fossil

Here are Zach and Austin showing off their finds

While we waited for Lucy to catch up I took an artistic picture that I named Smith boys on a log.

And finally a family picture.

What a great crew.  It was so fun to spend the weekend with them.