Well, now that we are into September, and I am back to work, and have my first football game on Friday, I figure I should probably finish up blogging about our Colorado trip, back in June. I have truly enjoyed the look back though, and it has helped me savor the trip, which was so wonderful. But I am back in the swing of school and work, and now that games are starting my schedule is starting to stabilize a bit. (Well, one could only hope)
First, walking around Breckenridge, this beautiful flower was planted in a pot along Main Street. It was so pretty, I had to have a picture of it!
And being as
Breckenridge is one of my favorite places to ski, and beautiful in its own right, here is a picture of the ski slopes from the parking lot off Main Street. I had even found a little
yarn/quilting shop that had some beautiful hand-dyed sock yarn from the Leadville Ladies.
We also had to go back to the spot where we watched the sun set at Lake Dillon, because I turned around and there were two llamas in a backyard. As a knitter, I could not get over them. They are not your average backyard pet. If you click on the picture, you should see a light colored one by the swing and animal crate, and a dark brown one by the stairs. It was warm and sunny that day, so they were staying cool in the shade. Llama, Llama!
As we were leaving the mountains to head back into Denver, we stopped at
Lookout Mountain and
Buffalo Bill's Grave. I had told Hubby about it, but never got him there until now. It was neat to see all the different views, including
Coors Brewery, the (in)famous brown cloud to the east, and the mountains where we had just come from to the west.
We then stopped and had a picnic lunch at
Red Rock Amphitheater. Always a fun place to be, but now they have an amazing visitor's center below the seating that goes through a history of how the Red Rocks were formed, how the Amphitheater was built, and all of the musical acts that have performed there. It was a lot of fun, and a little break from the 1/2 hour rain storm.
We spent another few days in Denver seeing other sites. We went to the
Denver Aquarium, which has tigers on display there. I would have never imagined tigers and fish, but there they were right in the center of it all. I do think my favorite fish were the archer fish who hunted crickets in the leaves above them by spiting, very accurately, and knocking them into the water to feed on. It was something I had never seen before.
We took a tour of
Hammond's Candy factory. It was fun, and fun to go back and watch the
Food Network's Unwrapped visit to the factory. My "sweet" little one definitely enjoyed the sugar high! We also went downtown and visited the
ESPN Zone. That made my Hubby's downtown trip. This is truly something you only find in Denver, a replica of
Coors Field made out of Coors Light labels. We also enjoyed the sound scape's, coming out of the sewer grates between the
16th St. Mall and the
Denver Center for Performing Arts.
We had a wonderful trip. We concluded it driving home on I-70. We happened to stop in Oakley, Kansas, which is the
birthplace of Buffalo Bill. We thought that it was only fitting that we were able to see the start and end of his life, only backwards. So here is the statue honoring William "Buffalo Bill" Cody in Oakley, KS.
Now with the trip concluded, I can get back to all the knitting I have been doing throughout the summer, and you know that has not stopped!
But I thank you now for letting me share such fond memories of a wonderful trip. Now back to regular programming...
