The bad part about us having to stop in the middle-of-no-where for fuel is that the fuel we got was bad. My check engine light came on and so for the next couple of days I made countless trips to a friends house who happens to be a mechanic, several trips to his shop and a couple of trips to the parts store. Needless to say I got a couple of new filters on the truck and thanks to my friend Anthony and his son Anthony our out of pocket expense was pretty minimal compared to what it could have been.
While trying to run the bad fuel out of the truck we managed to visit a couple of scenic spots outside of Laramie. We drove with grandma Janice to Cybil Canyon north of Laramie where they used to have a wildlife reserve that I visited numerous times on school field trips when growing up. Now it is an animal disease research facility but they did have a couple of Buffalo and Landon just loved watching them.
The boys and I also managed to visit the Snowy Range Mountains west of Laramie one afternoon. I just happened to turn onto this little dirt road and right in front of us we watched this deer eating and then she crossed the road so we could get a better look at her. Lucas thought this was so cool.
When we stopped at this scenic lookout at the top of the Snowies this beautiful butterfly landed on Landon and sat on his shirt for a good minute.
Yes that is snow and this was at the end of July! BURRRR
One of our favorite things to do while at Grandma Janice's is to stay up late and play dice. We play a game called Farkel and Lucas whooped our butt the first time he played. This particular night he decided to wear mom's non-prescription glasses the whole time and was just super cute. 
On Thursday, July 29th Steve drove to Laramie to spend the weekend with all of us and then he had his Laramie Enduro bike race on Saturday. This is the crazy long race he has done for the past 5 years that takes place east of Laramie in Happy Jack. It is approximately 70 miles and this year he got his best time ever of 7 hrs 17 min.. 
On the day of the race the boys and I, along with Grandma Janice woke up early and got ready to go on a picnic and a hike in Vedeawoo. While growing up in Laramie we would frequent Vedeawoo numerous times throughout the warmer months and it still remains one of my favorite places to camp. Lucas had been looking forward to climbing on the rocks during our entire vacation. 
Aunt Tonia & Barley met us at the park entrance and the five of us enjoyed a nice picnic before wandering off with the boys to do some climbing. Lucas likes to get down on hands and feet like Spider Man and Landon remained a little timid which was just fine with mom. ;)
Barley enjoyed the various little puddles in the rocks where he could stop off for a little drink. (He's so small you can barely see him to the left of Aunt Tonia.)
After our hike it was time to head to the Lincoln Monument to meet up with Uncle Robert before we then headed to the finish line to watch daddy complete the Laramie Enduro. In the past we have had time to sit on the sidelines and shoot the breeze but this year we had only been waiting on the sidelines about 15 minutes when Steve came down the final stretch and ended his race doing bunny hops for the boys. We were so surprised to see him so soon especially after his time the previous years had been closer to 8 hours. Yeah Steve - we are so proud of him. Unfortunately my camera ran out of juice on the hike in Vedeawoo with the boys so we have no pictures of daddy but we will always have the memories.
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