Woodland Park - 1st Camping Trip of the Season

Camping in Woodland Park, CO
We thought it would be fitting to celebrate the opening of camping season for our family at the same place we had our last trip of last summer.  Woodland Park.  Our last trip of the season last year was mid October and we got a foot of snow a week and a half later!!! Woodland Park is near Colorado Springs, has a very low elevation compared to most of our camping so we could count on the weather being pretty decent.
Funny thing about weather: we've been in the high 70s and 80s recently (very unusual for April) and this weekend the temperature plummeted on us!!! Never fear, it hasn't stopped us before, so off we went.

We "kidnapped" Austin, Jadeyn's 5 year old cousin so he could have a buddy for this trip.  The boys had a BLAST!!!!

We took the RZR our through the forests and trees and rocks and sand!  

The boy of course got to drive!!

FISHING TIME!!!
The lake was full of adventurous exploring, dirt, mud, climbing, occasionally paying attention to the fishing pole...

We caught a little crayfish which always brings a lot of entertainment!  Jadeyn loves these things and quickly made it his play thing for about 40 minutes.  He kinda tortured it a bit, let it swim, caught it again, tried to force feed it a few worms and bugs!  Austin wouldn't have anything to do with it which was kinda funny.

Dinner time is usually pretty entertaining with Jadeyn around, 

but together, these two really hammed it up!

The Dinosaur Museum in Woodland Park was much better than we were expecting!!!  We all love learning about these amazing creatures and to hear the history and about the means of discovering their bones has always been fascinating.  We had a great tour guide who really animated the adventure for us.  I was so proud of my boy.  People in the tour group were not asking any questions and Jadeyn would quite often raise his have and ask the most in depth questions: When do the baby T=Rex's leave their mamas? How did they get the dinosaurs in this building?  How are the bones sticking together?