{"id":2355,"date":"2013-07-17T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T23:45:11","slug":"hiking-around-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/07\/hiking-around-the-neighborhood.html","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Around the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A nice map with which we could plan our trip.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sorry, you can’t really call it “taking a walk” here.<\/p>\n

The kids, Howie and I decided to take a hike along the Cottonwood Creek Trail<\/a>, which runs southwestward from our neighborhood. Just a couple houses down from us is an access point between two houses to Colorado Springs’ expansive network of multi-use trails.<\/p>\n

We figured it’d be a quick walk to Cottonwood Creek Park, which is a nice big park with baseball diamonds, a basketball court and several playground structures.<\/p>\n

And it was a quick walk there.<\/p>\n

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The kids were great walking TOWARDS the park.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I got a kick out of this house with a double-decker deck…with the hot tub on the uppermost deck!<\/p><\/div>\n

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It had rained pretty heavily that morning, so the creek was running more vigorously than it usually does in the summer.<\/p><\/div>\n

The kids played for about 30 minutes at the park.<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to return.<\/p>\n

Timmy and Howie were quite slow, while Jacob and I wanted to go faster. But we couldn’t.<\/p>\n

So Jacob and I took our time and enjoyed the wildlife on the trail.\u00a0We saw scrub jays, magpies, goldfinches, and a couple prairie falcons. We also saw so many swallows that seemed to want to dive bomb us. They get pretty territorial…<\/p>\n

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Jacob and I enjoyed watching the wildlife on the trail.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, you can’t really call it “taking a walk” here. The kids, Howie and I decided to take a hike along the Cottonwood Creek Trail, which runs southwestward from our neighborhood. Just a couple houses down from us is an access point between two houses to Colorado Springs’ expansive network of multi-use trails. 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