Vacation - Day 8

What a wonderful day it was! Our last day in The Springs, and I really wanted to cross off three more things on “the list” — and we did!

1) Cave of the Winds. We took the 45 minute Discovery Tour and had a great family photo taken inside the cave.

2) Yarn Crawl. Some people like souvenir t-shirts, I prefer yarn I checked with the Colorado Knitters on Ravelry and got their suggestions for “must visit” yarn shops. I’m happy to say that they were right in their recommendations and the staff and selection at the Green Valley Weavers & Knitters and Needleworks by Holly Berry were excellent.

3) Geocaching in The Springs. Throughout our trip I had been having all sorts of fun with our new GPSr (How high are we now? How far to our exit? What’s our ETA?) but wanted to share the fun and do some family geocaching. The first cache we went to “Flea Flicker” was a microcache and although we were apparently standing right on top of it, we never did find it. Of course, that may have been the problem as my children thought it best to look by kicking pine cones and anything else that was in their path. Sigh. The next two were traditional caches in Monument Valley Park but we ran out of time and energy before we could locate them. It didn’t turn out as I had hoped, but before we got tired and thirsty, we did have a lot of fun.

Thanks to the yarn crawl and the lovely shops in Old Colorado City, we ended our stay in Colorado Springs on a high note. Tomorrow begins the train ride home. All that’s left for me to do now is pack