First Annual Val & Collette Cook Family Reunion and Vacation


We have started a new tradition.  Each year we are going to have a family vacation with our children and their children.  We have been blessed with a new trailer (Bernard) and Truck (Roxanne).

 Bernard is used as a home-base with satellite tents to house us all.  For our first adventure we headed off to Mesa Verde in Colorado.



All our children were able to come  Brianne and Dustin could only stay for the first part of the week so we arrived Monday and quickly took off to see the ruins.  We went on a ranger guided tour of the Cliff Palace.




 Tuesday we went to more ruins and hiked all around.




 
Grandpa made a toy box with lots of cool stuff to play with in camp.  Everyone got a car to play with.



Wednesday we had archry lessons from Brianne.  Adam and Kyle had fun shooting the bow.







 Pictograph hike over two miles round trip.




 Kyle touched all the number sign post this was the last one.  When he got to it he put both hands on it and put his head down to rest.  It was super cute.




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