Assspppeennn

That title is said with a lisp like Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber FYI. Every time I think of Aspen I think of that movie. Probably because I’ve never been to Aspen before so I have no other association. So Dumb and Dumber it will always be. Lol

We’ve tried to make our way there for the last couple years but Aspen doesn’t make it easy for people with travel trailers. There’s only boondocking for the really small guys and tents and most of their campgrounds (which are all of 4) book up months and months in advance. But we thought we’d try our luck this year because it was later in the summer and just maybe people were headed back home to get kids back to school. We were wrong. But that’s okay. We found a campgrounds about an hour outside in Basalt that was on a lake. They actually had 3 campgrounds all right there so we had to do some hopping around to stay all 3 nights but it worked out.

Travel days just consist of lots of cleaning, lots of driving, lots of grocery shopping and lots of shows for Mais.

That night we started looking up some hikes to do only to find we needed some permits that were all sold out. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Sounds very Aspen-y. Permits, no camping….lol But we managed to snag some for Maroon Bells in a couple days so we looked for another out of Glenwood Springs called Hanging Lake. The only permit left before noon was for 6:30 in the morning. Yikes! Mais has been sleeping until 7:30/8 every morning. But we decided to give it a go. We just packed the night before and the next morning around 5:30 grabbed her to put in the car in hopes she’d keep sleeping. It didn’t go so well. She freaked out! Like bad. I told Matt later on, “You know it was dark and we both had our hoodies on and pulled her out of bed and tried sticking her in a car. We probably just gave her her biggest nightmare.”

She finally calmed with mama’s hand and voice in back next to her but never made her way back to sleep. She was however in a fantastic mood for the trail which was awesome. I mean such a good mood that for the first time ever when we asked a stranger to take our picture she actually smiled instead of covering her face! Lol

Since we had the whole rest of the day ahead of us we took her back for a nap and when she woke we went to check out the town of Aspen and get snow ones. The town looked so European and the ritzy feel was everywhere. Maisey had as absolute blast chasing around the birds. We probably sat outside and watched her for over an hour while she looked for them and giggled while she ran after them.