The summer after I graduated High School my parents took me and my sisters on a vacation to Steamboat Springs, CO. Overall it was a great trip; I got to see a hot air balloon rodeo, call my girlfriend long distance (this was still a thing back then) from a ski shop's phone, and I got rewarded with Chinese food for saving my mom from drowning. All in all, a fun vacation.

There was, however, one part of the vacation that I still have nightmares about: Dinosaur National Monument.

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