Sunday, June 15, 2008

Fun in Denver

Not gonna write a whole lot at the moment as it is late and I am very tired BUT the main thing I went to get across is that I really dig Denver and the Rocky Mountains and feel like this is a place I could see myself spending a lot more time.

Summary of our day:
woke up 5:20 AM ET
left NYC 7:50 ET
arrived Denver 10:20ish MT
left with rental car 12:45ish (don't even get me started but at least we had a convertible!!)
Drove into the mountains, drove around Central City and got hiking directions
drove to Idaho Springs and up Mt Evans to the top where it was still snowy = and 40+ degrees colder!!! We hiked to the summit. Amazing. 14,000+ feet up... we were breathing HARD. It rocked!!! We got up close to marmots and mountain goats! We also met some neat people that live here (originally from Atlanta).
checked into Magnolia hotel
cleaned up and changed for dinner
got cookies and milk on the way out of our hotel
had a yummy dinner at Samba (cuban food)
walked around downtown people watching and now we're ready for blissful sleep!!!!

Photos to be added soon!

2 comments:

Kumocafe said...

That does sound really great! I have always wanted to see Colorado since Elementary school if you can believe that! :) I am slightly jealous. I wish I could go too!!

Love u and send pix !

Kumocafe said...

http://i.pbase.com/u47/ccraft/upload/40398778.olympic_marmots.jpeg


posted this on the wrong one a sec ago ;)