First we went to Lake San Crystabol, we stopped to fish for a couple minutes. It was very pretty but no bites. Then Jonathan saw a "shortcut" to Silverton. He didn't want to go through Montrose so we took his "shortcut" which turned out to be Cinnamon Pass. It turned out to be a 4 wheel drive must road. We are lucky we brought our truck. It took us a couple hours or more to get over. The road was very narrow and bumpy. There were HUGE cliffs that we were driving on the edge of and I am VERY scared of heights. Plus we had to pass quite a few jeeps and 4 wheelers. We made it to the summit of 12,640 feet above the timber line. We saw some beautiful rugged country. Jonathan said it was the most intense road he has ever been on and the scariest. My stomach was so knotted up from being scared that I felt sick for hours after we were off that road. Let me tell you it is not for the faint hearted that road. There were switch backs on the mountains that we had to back up 3 or 4 times with our truck to get around because it was such a sharp and steep turn. I had to get out and walk to calm down cuz I was freaking out. The kids loved it though and Jonathan was a picture taking freak. I would only go back on that road again if I didn't have the kids and I was on a four wheeler and I was the one driving. There were some crazy old people driving fast and by the edge. I told Jonathan, "If I were that old, I guess I wouldn't care about dying either." ANYWAYS.......we made it off that pass and got onto the MILLION DOLLAR highway, ugh.....the turns made me carsick and the road is still so narrow they can't put guard rails on the side so we were STIll driving on a cliff (thus my knotted stomach for hours). We FINALLY made it to Telluride where we wanted to go to the original True Grits restaurant. It was okay but we like our one in Alamosa better.
We talked about it and decided that we were not going to the Cave Dwelling on this trip because we would have to go back on the crazy Million Dollar highway. It was an interesting day, I am glad to say that I got to go see those roads but it will be a while before Jonathan can drag me back there and I will be fighting and screaming the whole way :)
We spent the night in Montrose at a holiday inn and got up the next morning all refreshed. We headed to Gunnison and met Jonathan's friend Ryan at Blue Mesa Resivour. He took us out on his boat which was really cool. Hunter screamed the whole time because he had to wear a life jacket. But Autumn loved it! After that we went and got some lunch, then we walked around Gunnison and visited some cool shops with some awesome stuff. We got some "souvenirs" to remember our "mini vacation". Then we got some icecream because we were all very hot by then.
We started for the alligator farm and the kids and I took a nap. Then we woke up and had made it to the alligator farm. Autumn got to hold the baby alligator and she got a certificate of bravery for holding it and the alligator "signed" it by chomping the paper with its teeth. We saw snakes, toads, turtles and lots of gators!! I was nervous the whole time because they are sooo ugly and scary and I watch the discovery channel about people getting eatin by them lol, but it was fun and towards the end, the gators where "roaring" which sounded so cool. By then we were hungry, so we left and went to our True Grits in Alamosa and ate dinner. It was a fun vacation and we loved everything we got to do and see. We can't wait to do it all again :) minus the crazy roads.....
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