Bishops Castle

When I was a kid I *loved* going to bishops castle. Its the most amazing thing to walk around. When I was a kid it was a lot less finished, and they had a haunted house here in October that was *amazing*. Well they dont do the haunted house anymore but its still a really cool place to stop in and visit. 

The Castle:

 A huge chair (Chris is standing so close because all the "seat" of the chair is gone):

 After we went to the castle we continued up the road to a lake on the top of Greenhorn to go fishing, this my friends will probably be my last fishing trip ever. Fuck fishing. I spent 20 minutes fishing and like 3 hours trying to untangle my line. Fishing is just not for me. I didn't come home with ticks so I think I will go back into the woods, but only for hiking and sightseeing reasons.

Fishing in San Isabel

I have already stated that I hate fishing, at the time of this adventure I did not hate it yet, this is one of the five fishing trips we have taken this summer for nothing. We did get to hike a bit though so that was fun.

Aleric:

 Everywhere we go we collect rocks:

Chris sitting by the lake, it was a beautiful day! 

 Us fishing... is it even called fishing if you don't catch anything?!?!?!

Fishing in Colorado City

I honestly cant remember when we went fishing here, I grew up just a little ways from this lake and spent a lot of time here as a child. As I write this in October, I went fishing I think 5 times this summer and only got one fish, it was like 3 inches long. I officially hate fishing! I hate spending money on fishing to not get fish. I spent about $120-$130 this year between fishing licenses for Chris and I, poles, tackle and bait. I could have bought a hell of a lot of fish for that much money! I will stick to hiking next year, Aleric can fish with my mom, I will hike, and we will have lots of fish from the store in the freezer to show for it!

Fishing Trip

We decided to take Aleric fishing with his new pole last weekend, I love the outdoors, like I really really love being outside, but fishing has never been my thing. I don't touch fish, we have 4 fish tanks in the house and if a fish touches me I freak out, I hate the way fish feel. If a fish decides to jump out of my tank (I have these shark fish that love to do this) then they will probably die on the floor before I get up the nerve to pick them up and put them back in the tank. I just don't like touching fish. So back to fishing, we took Aleric fishing at this really beautiful place over in Pueblo West.

We had to take Tatonka with us because he had just had surgery the day before, he hates lakes apparently.

David was the only one to catch a fish

And my dad spend most the time teaching Aleric how to skip rocks, well tried to teach him, Aleric was much more interested in just throwing large rocks into the lake and scaring away all the fish. (No wonder we didn't catch anything)

If you look closely in the above picture you can see my Mom in the background fishing.

It was a good trip though and we had a lot of fun.