Surprise Visitors

We were so happy to get a call from our friends, the D'Amatos, from Overland Park yesterday. They were passing through Durango as part of their National Parks tour. We met up for some ice cream and got to chat for a bit. It was really great to see them all. Holli loved playing with her friend, Devyn.

At 4am this morning we had a different type of visitor. Drew and I were woken by some loud noises outside. It sounded like something banging on our trash barrel. There's only one animal that does that... a bear. We went down and watched from the garage window for several minutes. That bear sure wanted that trash barrel open. He banged, bit, knocked it over and stood on top of it. I'm glad we pay the extra $2 a month for a bear proof trash can. If not, we would have had quite a mess to clean up. After a few minutes a car drove by and scared the bear off. He went trotting off through our back yard and into the woods. The kids were pretty excited when we told them we had a bear in the night. Below is a picture of some bite marks on the trash barrel.