Colorado Trip Day 4 - The Family

Okay here is where I start failing everybody. Sunday we had our big family cookout. The entire trip I had my camera held fast in my hand, but once the sunburn set in (about the time we hit Estes Park again the previous day), I was a bit too distracted to snap pictures. So the one thing I should have taken pictures of didn't get any. :-(

The cookout was at Uncle Bill's again, with Bill, Grandma, Ray, Brandi and myself being joined by my Aunt Mary and her husband Lyle, Ray's son Jay and his wife Bambi and their little ones, Bill's son Bill Jr. Bill's daughter Ann and her two little ones and one or two other members as well. I had a great time talking to people I haven't seen in far too many years, but I was in enough pain that it was a little...distracting for me. But I got a chance to talk with Lyle for the first time, met my cousin Jay and his wife for the first time ever, and it was good to hang with the side of my family I never get to see for awhile as well and hear all the old stories about how they grew up, about my dad and the type of person he was, and about how life was back then.

That night, Grandma, Ray, Brandi and myself stayed up for a bit and had some wine, cheese and crackers and talked and told more stories and all got a bit tipsy. It was a nice and informal way to end a long and fun trip.