Christmas Card Adventures

Never a dull moment for us...not even when taking a Christmas card picture.  Jesse wanted to get some with mountains in the background so all of you would be compelled to come see them and us in person.  So we set out that morning for Ouray (pronounced you-ray), which is about 40 minutes south of us.  People around here refer to it as the "Swiss Alps of America" I think it even says that on the sign when you drive into town and when you see them you'll understand why.

We didn't want just any picture with mountains and snow in the background, it had to be the perfect spot so we scouted out the area first.  You would think that would be a quick drive around, but no not for us.  It actually involved driving all the way to Silverton, CO and back, which is 45 minutes past Ouray. We didn't find anything that screamed amazing picture and Evelyn was beyond done, so we headed back to Ouray and about 5 minutes outside of town found a great lookout point.  It was just about the only spot that didn't say "no stopping or standing; avalanche area". 

  

 

This is what it looked over into; it's a waterfall that comes from under the road.  The part Jesse and Evie are standing on juts out into the canyon and has a grated floor so you can see through. It was pretty amazing!

Now the best part.  We don't own a tripod and since all of us needed to be in the picture I came up with a perfect solution.  At the time we still had tons of boxes kicking around the house so we built a tower out of them and placed the camera on top...unfortunately none of those pictures turned out to well and fortunately some really nice people came while we were there and offered to take the picture for us.  It worked out really well and it was nice of them to help! 

This is what we ended up with...

And here is the final product!