Llama, Llama, fun times!

This weekend Sean was doing a race for work, it was called Llama Rama.  And your reaction may be the same as mine was, what the heck is that?  While I read about it and heard about it, it still seemed like something that was made up and just down right silly, which is right up our alley.  We headed out early in the morning to Fairplay, a small town about an hour southwest of us, as best as I can tell.  The drive was amazing, we crossed over a few passes and despite Liam's little throwing up, the ride was great.  It was such an interested area, farms that were just surrounded by mountains and foothills.  We had taken that drive, however it was always covered in snow and we didn't have very good visiblity.  You could see for miles and miles, farm land, foothills and mountains.  It seems like those views will never get old to me.

We got there, got parked, met up with Sean's team and got his llama.  They were too late to get a fast one, so they had to settle for the one they got.

There were so many things going on in the town, a little fair, food, cowboys dressed up (there were some fake shoot outs later in the day), a baby kangaroo, just a whole town ready for a fun weekend.

The race was getting ready to start so Liam and I got our place by the start line and cheered on as daddy and his team, llama included started to go.  Liam and I then walked down to watch a little of the race, didn't see daddy's team and didn't want to get too far since Randy and Marianne were meeting us there.  Llamas were starting to cross the finish line, so we found a spot on the edge of town and watched all the llamas come in.  We met up with Randy and Marianne and just waited to find daddy and his team.  At first, Liam had a blast watching the llamas from his stroller, he would giggle everytime he saw one and wanted to see more and more.  We watched and finally, Sean and his team made it across the finish line.

 After that, we got some lunch and walked around.  I probably spent a little too much money on things, but I felt good supporting local businesses.  We then found out that Liam could down the bit bouncy slide and he loved it, loved it so much we did it 6 times, I'll be honest, it was the best $3 we could have spent.  He giggled and laughed and screamed with joy, it was great!  We decided the strom was moving in and it was time to hit the road, we made a few more stops back to the car and called it a day.  As soon as left, the skies opened and it rained, a great mountain rain.

The weekend finished up with some more great time with Randy and Marianne, a nice hike on Sunday morning, some yardwork, grocery shopping and getting ready for the week ahead.  I always wish Monday's would come a little later in the week, a few more days off, but we will just have to make the weekends work.  We have quite a bit going on these next few weeks, and I'm excited and looking forward to a great rest of the summer!