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I declared to Ben that for my birthday this year I wanted to celebrating by going somewhere warm. After dismissing flights to Mexico, Florida, Texas, and California, I looked closer to home and decided on a local hot springs resort. Mt. Princeton Hot Springs was only a few hours drive from home, so we could make it a quick one night, 24 hour vacation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, we left the kids alone to fend for themselves, and once again, they had a snow day! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the creek pictures are from the second day, when I brought my music and phone\/camera. The first day we were still figuring out the options and etiquette. The creek was my favorite pool by far, but they had many different pools of different sizes, temperatures, age restrictions, and water content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mountain roads!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Delicious lunch at Sweetie’s Sandwich Shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We wandered the shops in Salida and got local vegan ice cream and yarn. We did not expect such a bougie culture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We walked along the waterfront, then drove back up the hills to the resort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from our room, overlooking a creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We’re doing this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These pools have hot spring water flowing across them, you can mix it with the creek water to control the temperature somewhat. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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yasssssss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s a snow day at home….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had our fill of sun and soaking, time to hit the snowy roads home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At home I chilled and completed my SVT puzzle from Andy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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cupcakes = silent yum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I wasn’t able to finish my “birthday cake” in time before the trip, so we ate it afterward. It’s the Oreo cake recipe from Preppy Kitchen. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I declared to Ben that for my birthday this year I wanted to celebrating by going somewhere warm. After dismissing flights to Mexico, Florida, Texas, and California, I looked closer to home and decided on a local hot springs resort. Mt. Princeton Hot Springs was only a few hours drive from home, so we could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14384,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}