Mesa Verde Vacation

The end of July we headed down to Mesa Verde, Colorado for a Batty Family Vacation.  Brandon's sister was awesome and found a very awesome rental house that all 16 people could fit in.  It amazes me that, that many people in a small house could get a long so well.  Well the kids had their squabbles but that's what you get with 5 kids fighting for a attention.

The back view of the house.

View from the back of the house.

The drive down was pretty awesome, we came down through Grand Junction and through Telluride and can i just say that was a gorgeous drive but a little unnerving at times. Those who know the Million Dollar Highway then they have an idea of how that drive went. It wouldn't of been so bad except it rained on us the whole through. Either way it was a beautiful drive. I was kinda excepting a lot more desert type stuff, like vernal area, boy was I wrong.

I didn't take any pictures but this was definitely a view we saw from the highest part of the road.

Did I mention gorgeous

For those of you that haven't heard of Mesa Verde (like me before we went) then I'll fill you in. Mesa Verde is a national park in mostly CO, AZ, NM and UT. Its main appeal is the Stone Dwellings which were pretty neat. Amazing that people back then could build such pretty complex structures.

 

 

 

 

 Those are just a few of the dwellings we saw.  I sadly didn't take much of the towns that were around were we stayed, like Mancos, Cortez or Durango. OH well it was a fun trip.

Jayden loved the pack that we were able to borrow

Can't really tell but Jayden, Grandpa B and cousin Brielle were having a sword fight with grass.  Pretty fun to watch. Jayden was giggling pretty good.

 He sure does love his daddy and if Jayden looks tired then you would be right.  The whole time we were down there Jayden seemed little off and come to find out he was actually pretty sick, one of the nights we thought we'd have to go to the hospital since he was burning up and crying and wouldn't eat...ended up getting better on his own but he sorta spread the love of sick to others...sorry everyone.  For how sick J man was, he was sure the trooper and did really well on the long drive and everything.

We sadly didn't get to make it to the four corners site since it was under construction and stuff, but I think when Jayden is a bit older we'll make it back down there.
On the drive back we came home through Moab and can i just tell you if Brandon was  eager to take a vacation to Moab before he definetly is super stoked for the day we go down to Moab and really visit it.  He was like a kid in a candy store...granted it was for all the off-road trails but either way it was funny.