2017 Summer Slade reunion travels

2017 we were in charge of the Slade reunion.  Since we had such a good time at the YMCA of the rockies as a family last summer we headed to the YMCA of the Rockies near Granby, CO for a week with all the Slades!  (except Deanna, who was in Florida.)  We stayed overnight at the Academy so I could have a day shopping at IKEA and we could go the 'long way 'round' through Rocky Mountain National Park.  The pass road had just opened up that Monday and the walls of snow along the road at the top were twice as high as our van.  Pretty cool to see!  Also pretty darned cold.  We enjoyed the visitors center  and Noah, as is tradition, became a junior Ranger.                                              

Snow at the top of RMNP.  It were cold

On our way to the reunion we stopped at IKEA

Home of my favorite meatballs

quality cousin time

Tubing!  You get a facefull of water spray on the way down

doing the grunt work

Saw lots of furry friends up at the camp

Fishing for zipline users ;)

showing off for the younger cuzzins

climbing walls are not my forte

Climbing is ABSOLUTELY Isaac's forte

There was roller skating

groovy aunts ice skate

our very modestly sized group

Riding the magic carpet back up was a favorite part of the tubing hill

We did a lot of waiting out thunderstorms between activities

at the end of the reunion we took a hike with Aunt Linnea and the Darren Slades up to a pretty waterfall up above the camp.  It was a wonderful, exhausting week!