Happy Wedding Anniversary To Us!!!!

This year we celebrated our wedding anniversary on high! We celebrated at 12+ thousand feet high at the Rocky Mountain National Park:-) It is a BEAUTIFUL place.
We loved it there.

We stayed at a cottage at Estes Park (the town by the main entrances of this national park) and had access to the park easily. With our 7 days entrance pass we came in and out as we pleased. Following are some of the pictures of our first day there, July 15th, our wedding anniversary day:-)

This first day we did scenic drives. The views were spectacular! Very majestic! Somehow the mountains look smaller in the pictures. The pictures do not capture the distance,deepness/contrast of this place. The mountains canyons and valleys are huge when you are there in real life. To me, this was a very spiritual place.

As we drove, we stopped at different view points. We could not help but to do many of the short hikes up to the different view points.

Elevation 12,005 feet above see level

We are on top of the world!

Look at the beautiful Rockies behind me. They go further than the eye can see.

There are no trees at this area. Tress don't grow at this high altitude

Ran into some friends from northern California we had not seen in a few years. It was fun to catch up and visit with them. Above is a picture with them at the near by visitor center. Their children are not in the picture.
Can't believe we found Patsy, Joanna and family at 12,000 feet!

Here is when we are at lower elevation. Trees do grow in this area.

For part of the day we took the old scenic road. It took us to canyons and valleys, creeks, rivers, waterfalls, forest, and there were lots of wildflowers in this area. The mountains were always all around us everywhere we went.

This park is very clean and organize. The paths are very define and very well take care off.

Us and one of the many waterfall we found at viewing points

Gordon relaxing and enjoying the sounds of the water and nature by this creek/river