playing tourist...

The best thing about having house guests is being able to play tourist yourself. Last week we had our first wave of guests for the summer. I love to have people visit and luckily we live in a pretty awesome place that people want to come to. Our first guest was Mark's mom. I was super excited to have her visit. Even though we live just 15 minutes away from her there is nothing like being able to talk lazily in your pj's over breakfast with someone. Or staying up late chit chatting.  Am I right? Well... I may be wrong in remembering this visit with Joan... we were pretty busy for long, lazy breakfasts and we were often whipped after a jammed packed day to stay up too late!!!

Here are some of the fun things we packed into her visit...

The first day we ran around town and even went to the park for a birthday party for one of Gavin's friends. That night we were pretty tired so we ordered pizza from our favorite place, Peppino's in Frisco, and watched Gavin's first movie, Peter Pan. After the movie Gavin was convinced he saw Peter outside. We all had to look and pretend too!

We actually rented the movie from the library, for free which is awesome! We may have started a summer trend. We have been reading all the Disney classics to Gavin from a storybook collection so he is totally into them. Seeing the movie makes it even more fun. We actually rented and watched Snow White on Friday!

One thing I should mention concerning a visit from Joan is that she loves to eat out. Luckily she takes as along!! I think we never ate at home for lunch and only had two dinners at home. We ate at all our favorite places, Dillon Dam Brewery, Frisco Marina, Smiling Moose Deli to name a few. Here we are at Arapahoe Cafe in downtown Dillon right along the shores of Lake Dillon...

They serve awesome breakfasts. 



After breakfast Teagan and I headed to back to the house for some much needed baby zzzz's. The rest of the gang headed to Copper.

I know this activity must of made Mark a little nervous, but I think it is too cute. Joan said Gavin wanted to "decorate the rocks" and did so by doing this...

So they were beautiful like this...

After Gavin's work was done he got to do what he was so excited about...

 Bumper boats...

But the highlight of Joan's visit was riding the Georgetown Train Loop. If you ever come to Colorado on vacation, especially with kids you must do this! It was a ball!! Just look at this face...

It is a bit pricey- $25 for adults, children under 3 are free. But you ride on an actually train on actual tracks through some beautiful scenery. I thought it was well worth it!

  

If you do ride and have little ones I would recommend getting to the train station early to watch them fill up the steam engine with water. It is just like the water tower kids play with on Thomas the Train table sets!

Here is the railroads website if you are interested.

 After the train ride we stopped in the little town of Silver Plume which is very neat. This town makes you feel like you have gone back in time.

We stopped at the small bakery, Sopp and Truscott, for lemon squares a friend had recommended to me. They did not disappoint!!



Hopefully if you ever come up our way you can use some of these ideas when you are the REAL tourists!! Especially check out Gavin's decorated rocks in Copper. :)