Daytrip to Garden of the Gods and Seven Falls

Since we moved to the south of Denver, we have a new whole area do explore! I was with the kids already last fall at Garden of the Gods but I wanted to take my Mom down again because she likes these kind of hikes. And it is now only 45 minutes away from our house and it is free....

Jonah and Olivia posing in front of the gorgeous rocks

A picture of my Mom hanging out

Bestest siblings ever

View to the main mountains but the area is bigger. Since we had it awful hot, we only walked the smalles route and were back at this point in like 35 minutes.

'Balancing Rock'

Kids holding the rock up...lol

Then we went to 'Seven Falls'. This is not far drive from 'Garden of the Gods' and 7 waterfalls are displayed. Reason I never went there alone with my kids is that I am afraid of hights and I always wondered if I can make the stairs up with the kids...but in case I could not, I  would not allow the kids to go alone of course while I was waiting at the bottom of the stairs with a $25 dollar entrance fee paid. So I waited for my Mom and hubby to have time and boy was I right! I turned around on like the 7th step and just took pictures of my family having fun without me. That sucked big time! I was crying a lot...

Jonah, Olivia and Papa walking the way up, my Mom is still behind me

The red person is Chris on the second stairs up

After I turned around, Chris and gang walked all the way up the stairs and took a little stroll through the beautiful forest. Picture is taken by my Mom

My Mom shot this photo on the way down. I would have simply died.

My family on the platform waving at me on their way down.

I think that spot on the brown round place at the very bottom is actually me.

Chris is the red spot at top of the stairs

On the 'Eagle's Nest', a platform where you can overlook all seven falls at the same time. You could go there with a mountain elevator or if you did go up all the stairs, it took you 45 minutes to get here. Of course I did not do the elevator either. How crazy, hugh?

At least the rest of the family had fun!