Durango Day 3

Friday was dress rehearsal day.  We had some fun beforehand, though!

View of inside the rental house at breakfast.

The kids liked eating breakfast outside on the deck - with a friendly cat!



Katie had a bad cold, and chose to stay home and rest.  The rest of us went on a morning hike up the Animas Mountain.  We started by the houses to the right of Megan.

The view was just amazing!  This was as far as we made it before turning around.

Eagle eye (aka Megan) found something by the trail...

It was a tarantula!  It was soooo cool!

After the hike

Very cool old buildings in downtown Durango

Horse statues in downtown Durango

We didn't have the time (or money!) to ride the train to Silverton, so we went to the train museum instead.  It was a very nice museum with tons of artifacts.  Here is the gang watching the model train exhibit.

Violet loves men, and it was easy to get all the guys to pick her up!

Jess by a cool steam engine.  We watched a neat movie, got to board lots of trains, and saw a ton!

Another cool hotel in downtown Durango.  We bumped into Joe & Steph while walking downtown, and had lunch with them.

View of our rental house - gorgeous!

 

When we got home, we found a lizard sunning himself by the door!

He's so cute!

Then we got ready for the dress rehearsal.  I took lots of pics of the wedding site, which was beautiful.  I haven't connected these for a panoramic, but you can use your imagination to see these from left to right, right?

Steph's grandparents live in the green house at the right edge of this picture.

Steph's parents live across the street, kind of behind the tent.

There are several trout ponds and we had fun finding the fish

Reception tent and mountain behind.

Girls with Uncle Joe

Girls with soon-to-be-official Aunt Steph!

After dark, we descended upon the Coldstone Creamery in downtown Durango.

We had a big crowd!