Fairy Tale Forest

We've been doing a hike every Sunday all summer with the kids and then something special afterwards...it's been glorious.

Today we got up early to do Soda Creek Trail and ended up on another trail altogether which was steep and hard vs the minimal-elevation-gain-meander-along-the-creek-to-a-meadow that we thought we were going to do.

But we ended up amongst these ferns that were as tall as the kids... "It's a fairy tail forest!" Zo said and she was right, it was magical. We were pretty much alone on the trail, too, which hasn't happened to me yet in Steamboat. Glad we are branching out as far as our trail choices.

And then our special thing after was a margarita and late lunch on the rooftop deck of Salt and Lime...watching as the thunderstorms we'd gone hiking early to avoid started to roll into town...

Such a lovely Sunday. So grateful for my husband and kids and summer and this beautiful place we live in...

XOXO