Crested Butte Vacation {day 1}

Last year, we began the Family Vacation tradition and it seems as though we have waited all summer for our vacation to finally arrive.  It has been such a hot and grueling summer, a trip to the mountains is more than welcomed!  We have been enduring months upon months of more than 100 degree temperatures, and are in the midst of the worst drought this part of the country has seen since the dust bowl.  We picked a great year to move to Wichita Falls!  I keep telling myself that it only gets better from here.

Our trip began on Saturday, with an 8 hour drive from WF to Raton, NM, where we stayed in one of the strangest and creepiest hotels I have stayed in to date.  It's not saying much for the town that our hotel was the nicest for miles!  As we pulled into town, so did a huge thunderstorm, the kids didn't seem to mind and were excited to get out of the car and go for a swim.

Sunday morning we were up bright and early to begin on the next leg of our adventure.  Unfortunately, Trey and I had to turn around 3 times due to leaky cups, missing phones, and left behind iPads.  All things we can't live without!  Despite the hiccups we eventually set out to travel over the mountain passes and arrived in Crested Butte just in time for lunch.  CB has many delicious restaurants and we started the trip off on the right note with some pizza from The Secret Stash.  This might be the best pizza I have ever had, despite the somewhat bizarre atmosphere.

The rest of the afternoon was spent unpacking and enjoying the cool temperatures.