Holiday in Colorado

So my most benevolent brother decided he would like to take us on a vacation to the mountains. So after weeks of planning and procrastinating we finally settled on Colorado Springs, CO for 3 days and Royal Gorge,CO for 4 days. We packed accordingly and set off for Colorado Thursday morning May the 19th.
Ten hours of driving later in a very well packed SUV (Not good gas mileage with transmission issues, but powerful, non the less) we arrived in Colorado Springs. Boy am I glad Israel opted for a cabin while we're here in Colorado Spring, because the rain decided to come a calling.
The next day, after awesome camp breakfast, SPAM, we were treated to a trip up to the top Pike's Peak (elevation 14,100 ft.) was breathtaking experience, coming to the top and seeing the wide world of God's creation in front of you. You're 200 miles into Colorado and your so high up you can see 5 other states besides Colorado (Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico).

We later that afternoon visited Garden of the gods, an amazing outcropping of red rock and other stone. Unfortunately we couldn't climb any of it because of park rules to protect the environment.

Today (Saturday May.21), we decided to try an hike halfway up Barr Trail. Barr Trail is the old fashion (on foot) way to get Pike's Peak summit. We only got about 4-5 miles up the trail, but also went up almost a mile in elevation, THIN AIR!!! Hearts pounding, muscles burning, gasping for breathe we graciously accepted defeat and descended the trail. It was SO BEAUTIFUL. Finally after way to long with blistered and bleeding feet (are we tenderfoots or what) we got back the trail and went to chick-fil-a to satisfy our ravenous hunger, which we did, yay! We now settle down to a quite evening of canned soup, corned beef hash (Izzy's favorite) and lots of water (still dry from hiking) before we pack up to head out to our next camp site tomorrow!