The Stevenson Ohana

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Dolomites: Day 2 (part one: Lago di braines)

Woke up again in paradise! Lucy was the best little camping buddy, I had a lot of reservations taking her honestly (just a really busy age) and selfishly really wanted a kid-less trip with my brother, but she turned out to be the dream buddy and just made the future of girls trips so dang exciting! She was so fun and easy, and is the biggest cheese. Caitlin and Nelson were great too and was a fun crew. I'm way grateful for the time with all of them and this day was the best of the trip! It was so good, I have to decide it in two parts. The first was our boat and hike at Lago di Braies. Spent the morning rowing through the mountains in kool-aid colored water and hiking around it.

my view out the cabin

My two regrets of the trip, not bringing my nice camera and not bringing great shoes of Lucy. I kept her in her footsie jammies just because her shoes didnt stay great and was cold.

poor caitlin having contractions and back pain, she's such a champ

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Dolomites Day 1!

September 24, 2023: After a very crazy travel day we arrived at Camp Sass Dlania in the Italian Dolomites. It was a long day, our flight was short and drive was only a few hours but with some unfortunate delays and rental car fiasco taking forever we ended up driving through the dark and arrived at our campsite at night. So it was a present surprise to wake up in paradise!! We stayed in these A-frames and woke up with the mountains in front of us with fresh cool mountain air. We spent the day hiking and enjoying the views. We found a mountain top playground the kids enjoyed but walked a lot of miles this day. Caitlin was such a trooper, being far along in her pregnancy and as me and Caden decided we would do trail after trail and try to loop around rather than doing an out and back and went so far. It was a great time, and was so impressed Nelson did so much hiking too.