This day we visited Seceda Ridge and did some hiking. Then we drove to Santa Magdalena and took family photos.
The view from my hotel room this morning!
And the view looking the other direction from my room!
After breakfast we packed into a couple of cars and made our way to Seceda Ridge.
It was a little foggy on the first part of our drive.
Here you can start to see the mountains through the fog!
And they're a little more visible!
And now very visible!
Look at this pretty mountain!
And we made it to the town where the gondolas took us up to Seceda Ridge! The first gondola ride up the mountain, we had seats and only 6 people in each car.
Look at that view from the gondola!
On the first gondola ride!
And another view from the gondola.
Then the second part of the trip up the mountain we had to switch to another gondola that was bigger and had standing room only with a lot of people crammed in there.
This was the gondola station where we switched to the bigger car!
On our way to the top of the mountain!
And we made it to the top!
Basically every way I turned it was soooooo beautiful!
Behind me was Seceda Ridge (I’ll get closer up photos of it too)!
All of us siblings minus Pete. (Pete had to do a little work and so stayed at the hotel with Mom and met up with us later).
I wore my hair down this day so I wanted cute pictures of me. Even though it was kind of cold at the top, I wanted a picture without my jacket on. 😂
Seceda Ridge from afar!
Like I said every direction I turned it was so beautiful!
There was a loop trail to see better views of the ridge. Heather and I stuck together on this trail.
This was part of the trail up to the views.
There was snow up there!
Isn’t the ridge so cool?!
Being silly!
We saw a woman and man in wedding attire on the trail. I didn’t get a great picture but you can see the lady in the wedding dress in the maroon jacket. What a gorgeous place to take wedding photos!
Also where all of these people were gathered was part of the trail where it cost a little bit to go farther.
Heather and I stuck to the free portion of the trail. But Lara, Glen, Nate, Kristina, Matt and Tim went on the paid portion of the trail for a little ways.
I loved our time at Seceda Ridge! The trail was awesome and the views were gorgeous!
On the gondola ride down the mountain!
A pretty setting for a cemetery! (Picture taken from the gondola ride down the mountain)
The town where we caught the gondola ride up to Seceda Ridge!
Walking back to the cars to go to our next destination.
We drove to Santa Magdalena. Nate had been there before and thought it would be a good place to take family photos! It was gorgeous!
Pete and Mom met us here.
There was a little bit of confusion at this point about where exactly to take the pictures. Also we needed food but all of the restaurants in this town were closed (because it was Sunday).
We ended up not being able to eat lunch but Lara did have some snacks she was willing to share to tie us over until dinner time.
It was a beautiful day!
We were testing out different areas of this trail to see if they would work for our family photos. I do like this photo but we decided the lighting was a little weird here.
Look at this view!
I love this photo Lara took of the cemetery at the church on the hill!
This town was one of those places where no matter what direction I looked it was gorgeous!
And we found our spot for the pictures! (Heather did get some pictures here with her nice camera, but she has been super busy with work and hasn’t been able to look at them yet. These photos were taken by Glen with a phone).
Look at the gorgeous background!
Of course we had to get a jumping picture!
The church and cemetery at the top of the hill!
So pretty!
This picture was taken from the car. We passed this big mouse statue twice going in and out of town and I had to take a picture. I have no idea the significance of the statue.
We found an open pizza place to eat at in a town on the way back to our hotels. This statue and fountain were outside the restaurant. We ate dinner and then drove back to our respective hotels.
Although there was a little bit of confusion on this day, overall it was a lovely day with gorgeous surreal scenery and awesome company!
