{"id":694,"date":"2012-01-19T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-01-19T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:56:12","slug":"grand-lake-and-green-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/grand-lake-and-green-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Lake and Green Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View from Trail Ridge Road<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Every summer we head over to Grand Lake and play. We start out at the Fat Cat Cafe, which has the best breakfast in the world. Try it for yourself. The owner, Sally, is a fantastic hostess. I thought she told me that she has about 200 people per day for her weekend buffet. Pastries, scotch eggs, tons of bacon, cinnamon rolls and desserts of all kinds, I could go on and on…<\/p>\n

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Best Breakfast Around<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My kids aren’t really into hiking these days so we planned a short hike on the Green Mountain trail. Our main goal was to see MOOSE, which we were very successful.<\/p>\n

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Moose in Big Meadow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Moose Cow and Calf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We saw bulls, a cow and calf and many wild flowers on our way to Big Meadow. It rained all day and the mosquitoes were horrible so it was pretty difficult to keep the kids motivated. All in all I would highly recommend a early summer hike on the West side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The Calypso Orchids were just amazing.<\/p>\n

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Calypso Orchids<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We also spent about an hour at Grand Lake watching the sailboats race. The best way to finish off the day is at Grand Lake Chocolates for some of their world famous ice cream.<\/p>\n

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Sailboats on Grand Lake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every summer we head over to Grand Lake and play. We start out at the Fat Cat Cafe, which has the best breakfast in the world. Try it for yourself. The owner, Sally, is a fantastic hostess. I thought she told me that she has about 200 people per day for her weekend buffet. Pastries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[174,127,46,10,255,270,204,254],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun","category-hiking","tag-blog","tag-calypso-orchids","tag-colorado","tag-estes-park","tag-fat-cat-cafe","tag-hiking","tag-hiking-trails","tag-never-summer-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorismith.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}