Above: top is Sammi at the summit of Pikes Peak, below that is the boys with a miner, bottom is Sammi at on overlook looking north east to the valley.
After lunch, I took the car to get the windshield fixed. It had gotten a crack when we were passing a truck going the other way yesterday and our insurance company suggested we get it fixed there. While I was doing that, Missy, Sammi and the boys biked a short distance up to Manitu Springs for some more shopping and ice cream.
Did I mention this area is considered a desert? They only get about 10 inches of rain a year.... But when it rains, it can do a lot of damage. Well today, a freak thunderstorm popped up over Manitu Springs and also over the site of last years Waldo Canyon Fire, which as luck would have it, is upstream to Manitu Springs. They got about an inch of rain in one hour and the mountains gave way above town causing a mud slide over the highway and sending a torrent of mud down toward Manitu Springs. The sirens went off calling for an evacuation and when Missy and the kids got back to the bikes, one of the locks would not open! So a nice man with a pickup truck drove them back to the campground, where the fire department were encouraging everyone to evacuate. Of course at the same time, the campground was telling everyone to stay put! In the end, we stayed put, the mud stayed inside the riverbanks and I bought a giant sized bolt cutter at Home Depot and cut the bike lock! All was good in the world again!
Above: mud filled creek and below that the snowplow used for pushing the mud off the road!
This evening we took a nice walk in the Garden of The Gods park. The park is a series of tall red rock spires and the evening sun made them look amazing. The kids even tried to climb a few of them for fun.
Below: the boys favorite gas station!
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