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# pikes peak
- URL: https://www.bradenanderin.com/pikes-peak/
- Published: 2019-06-26T04:16:45.000Z
- Updated: 2019-06-26T04:18:40.000Z
- Author: erin
- Tags: family, places we've been, the bus, summer, #Import 2023-10-16 11:47

When you're in Colorado Springs you have to go to the top of Pikes Peak, so we did.

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Emma is adventurous, like Braden.

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Olivia is not, like me. We did make it a couple steps down into the rocks, then Olivia said "this is not safe. let's go back up". I'm with ya girl. 🙌🏼

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The road going up (and down) is pretty incredible. So are the views.

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After we made it back down the mountain we stopped in Manitou Springs for shopping and ice cream.

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We also stopped at an amusement place with the most impressive collection of those little kid rides that cost a quarter. There must have been 100 of them.

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Reason 400 why this is the most amazing campground ever... we've seen deer every day since the moment we checked in at the visitors center. Tonight we drove past 4 of them having dinner.

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