Today was our final day in Colorado. We will start our slow trek home tomorrow. I started the day with a shower at the campground facility. I don’t mind our RV shower, but at 6′ 5″ I have to do a lot of bending over in tight quarters to rinse my golden locks. If the campground has decent facilities, I generally take that option. Let me tell ya, the showers here at The Prospect RV Park are incredible. As the shower head peeled off my outer three layers of skin, all I could think of was the Seinfeld episode where Kramer buys the illegal elephant shower head on the black market.
So, as I’m returning to the camper from my glorious shower, I notice a local law enforcement officer talking to the folks in the first site entering the campground. My first thought was that someone had stolen something from them since they were the first site entering the campground. I continued my return to the camper so I could complete the final steps in the daily hair preparation process (timing is critical here). When I turned off the hair dryer I heard Beth talking to someone who sounded official and I heard the words “hazmat” and “evacuate immediately”. The next thing you know, Hurricane Bethany has packed up all the cats and a litter box in the Tahoe and we’re heading for the kids’ apartment.
We invaded the kids and the cats were definitely in stress from the move and having a 2 year old terrorize them. Aaron and I still had to laugh as Beth was chasing one of the cats out of some unauthorized area shouting “out! out! out!” and little Penelope was following along behind her Grandmother shouting “out! out! out!” and pointing just like her leader. It was so cute!!!
Once things settled down to a dull roar, we left the apartment and tried a new (to the area) restaurant called Newk’s Eatery. This restaurant was nice and other than having to order your food upon arrival (which is way too much stress for me when I have a 2 year old and a 3 month old in tow) I would recommend it overall. Beth had a French Dip sandwich and I had a very tasty hot Italian Sub sandwich.
From there we walked over to the local Frozen Yogurt store and fed Penelope enough sugar to keep her running at high RPM’s for hours.
When we got back to the kids’ apartment we found some news articles regarding the Hazmat situation and just prior to Aaron leaving for work were allowed to pack up the varmints and return to the campground. They are completely exhausted from their big day out.
Overall we had a great day with the kids and will definitely miss the granddaughters.