DFT24 - Day 5 and 6

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 On Tuesday the girls spent the morning at the Farmington Children’s Museum and Nature Center with Aunt Missy and Jenna.  Daniel and I stayed back because we had a zoom meeting for school 🤪



The rest of Tuesday we spent the day eating our way through Durango, CO. Missy and Roy live right on the border of New Mexico and Colorado. So we were able to go into Colorado for the day. So now C can say she’s been to Colorado 😉 We had appetizers and drinks from Carver’s Brewing Co. Purchased delicious chocolate from Animas Coffee and Chocolate. Had street tacos for dinner at Switchback. And ended the night was delicious homemade ice cream. I tried balsamic strawberry in a blue corn cone…it was so good I didn’t think to take a picture until I had crumbs left. 😋


Wednesday we got up and started the day with a visit Aztec Ruins National Monument.  I will say all of the small NPS sites that are in the southwest area are really nice and well kept.  Daniel took a cute picture of C in the ruins that reminded me of a picture we took of EG at Mesa Verda in 2018  I can’t wait to put them beside each other! 






We had lunch at a place called Blake’s Lotaburger…it was way better than Whataburger.  Roy gave us a tour of the college he works for.  And we played in the sprinklers! We got coffee but C had fallen asleep in the car. So I let Daniel go in and pick out our coffee…it was also a reason to stay in the car and listen to the Vols game! We also got doughnuts from Johnny O’s Spudnuts. And Daniel tried his first cinnamon roll of the trip. 






Today is our last day in Farmington - tomorrow we leave to continue our DFT. But it’s been nice to hang out with the family for a few days.  Already trying to plan a trip back….maybe in the winter next time.  


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