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Today was a great day! We left Pueblo, Colorado and headed west towards Montrose. We decided to take this drive to see the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. I am glad we did. I had heard this was a must see sight. On our way we noticed signs for the Royal Gorge. Papa had been there in the 1950's and said it was spectacular. We decided to pull down there and check it out...I mean all the signs were pointing us in the direction and how wrong could they be right....well once again, those people are smokin' crack! They wanted $26 per person to walk out on the bridge over the gorge. I think not! I found a small trail that led down to a spot you could view it and took a few ... read more

Oh what a day! We started out early by heading into a town called Picher, Oklahoma. This is town that the kids have wanted to visit once they saw a documentary on the Discovery Channel about it. Here is the wiki informatio on it: "Formerly a major national center of lead and zinc mining at the heart of the Tri-State Mining District, over a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout th... read more

From Grammy's point of view: On this day we slept in (6:30?) it was sunny and warm. We headed to the Military National Battelfield in Vicksburg, a civil war monument for the soliders that fought there. After a quick history lesson at the visitor center, we headed out. It was a 16 mile trail around the park, that everyone was enjoying including hikers, bikers and moms with strollers. The monuments for the men from different states, Iowa, Illinois,Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin to name a few. After the auto tour loop, we stopped at the U.S.S. Cairo, a Civil War era Ironclad ship. It rested on the bottom of the Mississippi River for over a hundred years, before being raised. It was turned into a Museum, and it was great the kids really enjoyed it. We loved ... read more

Sometime in the middle of the night it started to storm....and I mean storm! Thunder, lightening and flash flooding. It was crazy. Our swamp tour was cancelled and we made a decision to head north after watching the weather channel and seeing that it was showing sunshine up north. We left town and headed towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. What a beautiful drive. We drove over the swamp for about 45 minutes and the kids thought it was so cool that they were on a never ending bridge, it was storming the whole time too! As we were cruising along we saw a sign for Port Hudson. We decided to stop and see what it was all about. As it ended up it was a military fort that was used during the Civil War by the Confederates to ... read more

Well, I am a little behind and a wrote an entire story and somehow this blog lost it all. I need to make this quick.....The Alamo was beautiful although it was very busy. I am glad they didn't charge to get in. We had a wonderful lunch on the Riverwalk and then headed to our hotel. We loved our riverwalk view from our room! We all went for a swim to cool off and then headed back out to the Riverwalk for our riverboat cruise. It was very informative and told of the history of the area. We then headed to the Hard Rock Cafe for the kids to experience a "Hard Rock Hurricane". They even got to keep the glass. Overall, San Antonio was a great place to visit!... read more