Following the Relay For Life, the boys played outside, had lunch and Kelly ran some errands. Then since we were celebrating the end of Nolan's school year, Nolan picked from a choice of hikes and dinner plans and off we went to Fort Collins. After finally remembering to stop at the Colorado Welcome Center and picking up our free t-shirts (a cool promotion by the Colorado tourism folks), we headed over to the Horsetooth area.
The hike in to Horsetooth Falls is about 1.2 miles, which we thought would be a good distance for the boys, and it turned out pretty well. We heard from several folks along the trail that had seen rattlesnakes just moments before, but luckily they slithered off before we walked up on them.
We did hear some rocks falling off the other side of the canyon near the falls, and when we were at the falls Scott spotted a black bear wandering up the other side of the canyon. Kelly also saw it moments later, but the boys were unable since the bear went into some pretty thick brush.
Here are a few more pictures. It turns out that we also took Reba on this trail when she was a puppy back in 1999.
Our neighbors across the street recommended a Mexican Restaurant in Ft. Collins that we had never tried. Consuela's was great and we will probably visit again. We are kicking ourselves for not trying it when we lived down there! We promised the kids we could go out for ice cream at the Walrus downtown if they tried the new restaurant without complaining, so we did that too and took in a little of the Saturday evening night-life and shopping in downtown Ft. Collins.
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