traditions

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My family has a tradition to visit the Estes Park Wool Festival the first weekend in June. We enjoy looking at the animals while munching on kettle corn. This year it was cold, muddy and rainy. The festival goers were all stuffed into the tents trying to stay warm and dry. It was still fun to have the annual discussion with the young man who wants an angora rabbit, I always say not today. He tries to convince me he will do all the work, I remind him how often I feed his lizard. He says he is going to make money selling the fiber, I insist I don't enjoy knitting with angora. Secretly I am almost ready to give in, they are so cute! We left empty handed and headed to Rocky Mountain National park where the temperature at higher elevations was in the 30's!! We took a nice stroll around the lake where the boys enjoyed throwing things in, until the manthing nearly lost a hand knit hat. Really it was the best day ever, I love my family and our traditions.