The family took a trip to Denver, Colorado to stay with Liz' friend Allison and her husband Josh. We drove the first of many drives towards Colorado Springs to visit the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center and then did a driving tour of the Garden of the Gods where Daddy hopped out repeatedly to snap quick pictures which turned out to be a good idea because days later when we returned to picnic it started raining.
We checked out the Denver Botanic Gardens where they had dinosaurs hidden around the grounds to make it palatable to kids. Keeping with the garden theme we went to the Butterfly Pavilion where Ethan got to hold a tarantula! At the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, we all got a bit of vertigo next to the world's highest suspension bridge, 1053 feet above the river bed. Daddy was 3 for 3 in tomahawk throwing there! Next door we hit Buckskin Joe's Frontier Town and Railway where we had a stormy but pretty train ride over towards the gorge.
Somehow we had stumbled upon a brochure for the Focus on the Family Visitors Center which was free and really cool. Ethan was not happy however when we told him he wasn't tall enough for the three-story tall curly slide. We met up with Avery (Ethan's best friend from Stroller Strides who moved over a year ago) at a cool restaurant The White Fence Farm where they serve their famous hot corn fritters which essentially tasted like funnel cake as a side dish!
We also took a nice ride on the Georgetown Loop Railroad where the boys got to get off halfway and take a tour inside the Lebanon Tunnel silver mine! Finally we had a night of watching 4th of July fireworks from the comfort of the rental minivan topped things off.
Click here or the album for photos! (You'll see that Ethan like sticking his tongue out lately.)
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