Emilie Marie: Meeting Uncle Travis

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I did lots of new things on my trip to see Uncle Travis and Aunt Kristi! I went on my first airplane. Which I slept most of the time, the sound of the engine is just made me SO sleepy!

I also road on my first subway and bus at the airport! Then in my frist van once grandpa and daddy put my car seat in the rental :) At the airport I met Uncle Travis and Aunt Kristi for the first time :)

We didn't get to see them too much at the airport Uncle Travis had something to do back at the base, but they came over over later and hung out. See Uncle Travis and I in camo together?

Mommy took me swimming for the first time ever. The water wasn't too bad until I got out and then I was really cold! I must take after mommy like that. She never finds the water too cold until after she gets out.

We went all kinds of places. We went to Denver to go shopping for a new coat for mommy and grandma. Uncle Travis and Aunt Kristi bought me a bear from Build-A-Bear! They picked out a polar bear and dressed it up to look like an Avalanche player! So cool :) Here's a pick of all of us at the shop :)

While in Denver we went to an aquarium. I slept through some of it, but I when I was awake I loved the fishies!!

I even watched a tiger eat! Man he could have gobbled me in a few bites! He was SO big and I was so close!

We got our picture taken together. We don't have many family pics :)

Daddy tried to feed me to the shark ! Oh see the pretty outfit I'm in. It didn't come back home with me. It didn't survive my colossal poop that night :\ It was such a mess and mommy had to clean me up in a public bathroom with no help. What a time to run out of wipes! It was stressful but we got through it.

Daddy forgot to pack me bottles the day we went to the aquarium and mommy wasn't feeling very well all at, so they bought me a souvenir. Check me out drinking from my new fishie bottle :)

We hung out at Aunt Kristi's (and Uncle Travis's ;) ) house a few times. Daddy was doing something with their Wii. All I know is that Uncle Travis has a VERY big computer monitor. See it behind Grandpa and me?

I also got to pet my first doggie!! Winnie was very cooperative. I wasn't really scared, I think I'm bigger than she is!

Here are the other doggies:

We went to this place called Estes Park. On the way there we stopped at a little shop and tried from different kinds of jerky. Okay I didn't, but mommy and daddy did. They tried different kinds like duck, elk, kangaroo, deer, buffalo, pheasant, and ostrich. Grandma had been looking for a cowgirl outfit for me...this hat had to do. I wasn't that happy of a camper in this picture.

At this store they also had a tower you could climb and take pictures.

See mommy's new purple coat :)

Estes Park was kind of cool. Daddy got to try all sorts of new hot sauces at a sample it hot sauce bar. We also went to a bar, another first for me. I even stripped there...hehehehe

On another day we went to go find a gold mine to look at. Which ended up putting us right in the mountains :) I slept but I was told it was pretty :) We ended up in a little town that was pretty much all casino's Grammy would have loved it! Here I am at my first slot machine :)

Here's a funny story. We went down stairs to their restaurant and ate lunch. When we went to leave they said we had to wait to be escorted out! All because of ME! hehehe

We did find a mine to look at :) Mommy even fed some chipmunks and if she ever gets the pictures from daddy she will show you :)

We also went back to Denver to walk some street. Uncle Travis wanted to carry me around so mommy let him. He did a good job at keeping me happy :)

We went back to their house on a different day too. Aunt Kristi helped mommy dress me.

Uncle Travis put his jersey on for a few pictures too :)

Grandma even captured them on film ;)

We went and visited some good friends of mommy's and daddy's. Hope was very happy to meet me and Chris was very happy to talk geek to daddy ;)

After all these busy days I was always happy when we got back to the hotel. Mommy did have a crib for me but I preferred the big bed.

Here we are all together for one last picture. We left very early the next morning since snow started to fall! We were worried the plane wouldn't take off. Which it did, just we spent an extra 1.5 hours in it so it could be de-iced.