{"id":199,"date":"2010-04-26T01:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandm.ironboxconsulting.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-04-26T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T01:37:08","slug":"denver-colorado-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pandawagon.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/26\/denver-colorado-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Colorado trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shot from the clog wheel train going up Pike's Peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past weekend we visited Denver Colorado for an ABA conference that Susan was attending.\u00a0 For the first time I stayed in a Ritz Carllton hotel.\u00a0 The room was large, but not overly impressive and the decorum was nice but again nothing that shocked and awed me.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

We visited Josh and Sharon, lawyer friends from D.C. who recently moved to Denver.\u00a0 Thursday night we met them for dinner along with some of their other friends who happened to be in town visiting.\u00a0 It drizzled Thursday, snowed and rained Friday, and was partially overcast on Saturday.\u00a0 So much for the second sunniest city in America.<\/p>\n

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Susan sharing an empty coffee on Pike's Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday I worked while Susan attended meetings and then we went out for Sushi that night.\u00a0 Saturday we met up with Sharon (Josh was at his law firms weekend retreat in Sante Fe).\u00a0 We took a clog wheel train up Pike’s Peak.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part of the trip was Saturday night when we visited Colorado’s oldest restaurant, the Buckhorn Exchange.\u00a0 Live animals, 1,700 of them to be exact, peer at you from the walls.\u00a0 Susan and Sharon were a little spooked out.\u00a0 Susan feared the hairs from the antelope above our table might fall into her food \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Cowboys playing music and yodeling at Buckhorn Exchange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While waiting to be seated we listened to cowboys sing songs about cats, the West, and heard some yodeling.\u00a0 At dinner we ate alligator tail, elk, buffalo, and home made ranch dressing.\u00a0 Yumm, yumm delicious.\u00a0 Definitely a man’s man’s restaurant and a must visit for any meat lover.<\/p>\n

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