{"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":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/07\/hiking-around-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Around the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A<\/a>
A nice map with which we could plan our trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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

\"The<\/a>
The kids were great walking TOWARDS the park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I got a kick out of this house with a double-decker deck…with the hot tub on the uppermost deck!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"It<\/a>
It had rained pretty heavily that morning, so the creek was running more vigorously than it usually does in the summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

\"IMG_7001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

\"Jacob<\/a>
Jacob and I enjoyed watching the wildlife on the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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. We figured … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,293],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids","tag-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t