Today started off with a divide and conquer mission. Desi went to get the RV with our friend Adam and Julie went with the girls to run some errands. Today is Ellie’s Birthday. What do we have in store for her? An RV, some errands, a road trip, and our first night camping in the RV. Happy Birthday to our energetic creative 8 year old!

Turns out the RV was over an hour outside of Denver in Monument. After getting a 1.5 hour thorough walk through of the RV Desi headed back to meet up with Julie and the Girls. The automatic levelers on the RF aren’t working, but we’ll go into that more later.

The drive from Denver to Estes was not too bad just a little over an hour away. We stopped at a scenic view and met some local wildlife. Ellie even got to feed some chipmunks right from her hand.

After the stop we headed to downtown Estes park to load up for meals for a few days and then headed to the camp ground. Site 95 at the Spruce Lake RV Park. The lake is more of a little pond but it has some amazing views of the mountains and sits right along the side of a running river that is just amazing to hear at night.

Got the campsite setup pretty quickly and made dinner, burgers and tater tots. YUM! We had an after dinner walk to the local store and planned out Day3.

Up tomorrow a trip to downtown Estes, a visit from the RV owners, and a planned outing to Rocky Mountain National Park.