Yesterday we took the kids to Medicine Bow National Forest (it is also called Vedauwoo). Vedauwoo is located just outside of Laramie (about 40 minutes from Cheyenne). We have seen it as we have traveled this summer and Maeli has been begging to go climb on the rocks. She is our little monkey. The rock formations are absolutely amazing. I have never seen so many cool rocks. There are hundreds of acres of incredible rocks.
We went with a family from our ward. I think the kids had more fun being there with other kids. They climbed and climbed, then we had a picnic and they climbed some more. Of course they didn't want to leave even though we were all exhausted and it was beginning to storm. We saw some close lightning and the thunder sounded like fireworks. Mikey kept saying SCARY, SCARY. He is so funny when he says it because he acts like he is shaking in his shoes. The elevation at the top of the largest rock is around 8500 ft, so the elevation is pretty high .
We saw lots of little chipmunks that the kids loved to feed and watch. We didn't see any rattlesnakes, but Ellie was convinced that every rustling or noise was a rattler. The kids were all concerned that a rattler was going hunt them down and bite them. It took some convincing to make them believe that we probably wouldn't see any rattlesnakes and even if we did that they wouldn't search them out and attack them.
We all had so much fun that we are looking forward to going back and maybe camping next time. Jeff and I enjoyed seeing the kids having so much fun exploring and enjoying the outdoors.
