Labor Day Camping Trip

We continued the tradition of a Labor Day Camping trip despite the craziness of everything with the renovation. This year we went up to Glacier Basin campground in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a beautiful campground and we had two sites that held over 50 people.

We drove up Friday afternoon to set up our campsite, the kids were super excited. 

Friends started showing up throughout the evening and the kids had a blast playing together

 A favorite activity was building rock towers

On Saturday some of the group headed out to go fishing but since it was Labor Day weekend all the buses were full and they had to come back to the campground


So we ended up taking the fishing poles and hiking to a nearby lake

Attempting to cross this shallow creek with so many kids was quite the task!

Lots of fun around the campfire

 Yearly camping family photo

 Jack and is buddies

 Kids having fun!

After we packed up the campsite we went for another hike in the forest. The girls had fun posing for pictures

When we were in the campground it wasn't too busy, but as soon as we left the campground it felt like Disneyland. So many people everywhere! To get out of the park was bumper to bumper traffic

 We stopped in Estes Park to meet friends for dinner. Jack proceeded to spend his entire savings of lemonade stand money on quarter machines. He split all of his money between his friends and they proceeded to blow through it all on quarter machines and this claw machine. $30 of hard earned lemonade stand money was gone in less than 30 minutes... but they had a fun time spending it!