On our last day in Denver we met Sharon, Josh, and their son Collin at the Children’s museum. It was a cool place, but honestly our kids would have had just as much fun playing at REI 🙂
The firetruck was a highlight – as it was a 100% real firetruck.
Parker found the tool section and refused to leave. By the end we had to extricate him kicking and screaming as his hammer and saw were left behind.
REI has their headquarters in Denver. We checked out the flagship store. It was a massive place in a converted warehouse with exposed steel beams and original brick walls, etc.
The kids had a blast playing on the indoor playset and the rocks outside.
This past week we were in Denver visiting friends and attending a conference. We visited an awesome park that was only a few blocks from Sharon and Josh’s new house. Skylar and I climbed to the top of a rock wall and checked out the amazing view of the Rocky’s.
This past weekend we visited Denver Colorado for an ABA conference that Susan was attending. For the first time I stayed in a Ritz Carllton hotel. The room was large, but not overly impressive and the decorum was nice but again nothing that shocked and awed me. However, the gym was 3 stories of the hotel, included a rock climbing wall, full court basketball court, whirlpool, and state of the art everything.
We visited Josh and Sharon, lawyer friends from D.C. who recently moved to Denver. Thursday night we met them for dinner along with some of their other friends who happened to be in town visiting. It drizzled Thursday, snowed and rained Friday, and was partially overcast on Saturday. So much for the second sunniest city in America.
Friday I worked while Susan attended meetings and then we went out for Sushi that night. Saturday we met up with Sharon (Josh was at his law firms weekend retreat in Sante Fe). We took a clog wheel train up Pike’s Peak. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to the peak because snow had drifted onto the track, but we did make to about 12,000 feet above sea level.
The most interesting part of the trip was Saturday night when we visited Colorado’s oldest restaurant, the Buckhorn Exchange. Live animals, 1,700 of them to be exact, peer at you from the walls. Susan and Sharon were a little spooked out. Susan feared the hairs from the antelope above our table might fall into her food 🙂
While waiting to be seated we listened to cowboys sing songs about cats, the West, and heard some yodeling. At dinner we ate alligator tail, elk, buffalo, and home made ranch dressing. Yumm, yumm delicious. Definitely a man’s man’s restaurant and a must visit for any meat lover.
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