Hot springs and surprises

So I was supposed to be covering someone on sunday morning.
I get to work and find out that she wasn't even scheduled.
Someone else is there so I just get to go home.
Which was fine with me because the family was here and if there was toss up between work and family. It is always family.
So I was thrilled to go home and spend the entire day with them!

So we decided to make the trip to Ouray for the day.
There are hot springs up there and we hadnt been up there in two years so we wanted to visit again.
If you haven't been to Ouray, it is absolutely worth the slightly treacherous drive.
After a lovely lunch, with full on food babies in tow, we went to the hot springs.

Which I highly recommend because they are super fun and the hot pool is actually pretty toasty.
So we spent a few hours there with Claire wanting to play and dunk me.
We went down the slides.
Relaxed and just had some good fun.
Enjoying our last day together for a while.

After all that and we got dried off and prettied ourselves again we headed back to durango.
Claire and I conked out for a while whilst the parents drove.

Got back to durango and went out to Himalayan kitchen.
Awesome food and we waddled back to the car where we decided that we were in the mood for pie.
Tollhouse pie.
Which is just about the best thing ever.

And then we invited my good friend Allie over for pie.
She hadn't met the crazy people that I like to call my family yet.
And it went splendidly.

Well of course it did.
And I had a second day with the family in town.
The next day they were headed home.
But I hugged Claire a little tighter that night.