Trip to Denver

Traci, Brooks, Hunter and Tate went to Denver with us! Pake and I were soo excited to have someone to come and hang out with us. We left on Monday morning and were able to hang out that afternoon and all day Tuesday. We packed in lots of sight seeing!

Our first stop was the Bass Pro Shops. The boys loved it... Brooks, Pake, Hunter and Tate.

This is Casa Bonitas. We'd heard this was a really cool place to visit. It's a restraunt that's actually a cave. The entertainment was great, but I can't say the same for the food. It was ok, just not gormet authentic or anything...

Traci, Hunter, Pake, Brooks, Tate and I.... we were seated in the splash zone!
We got to see the divers up super close. It was like nothing I've EVER seen before.

One of the divers about to make an awesome dive.

On Tuesday, we headed for the foothills and mountains. We went on a scenic drive that started at Golden. It's such a charming little town with a creek that running through it.

Pake watching the guy on the kayak.

I was worried that Tate was going to jump in!

We drove up Look Out Mountain, you can see Golden and Denver in the background.

At the top of Lookout Mountain is Buffalo Bills museum and grave. It was really interesting.

We started driving up near Echo Mountain Ski Area. There were some beautiful views, but we couldn't stop just anywhere since it was a two lane highway. We saw a car that ran off the road. It was really steep where he went off but the trees kept him from falling off the side of the mountain. He was fine though and he took his bike off the top of his car and rode it down the mountain. We wanted to go further but a thunderstorm was rolling in.

The creek outisde of Evergreen, Colorado. We were all wishing we could go fly fishing!

Red Rocks Ampitheatre was the last stop on our scenic drive. It's really something to see! I bet concerts there are awesome!

We went downtown to the Aquarium. I never get tired of going there... it's an interesting place.

Pake's best friend Hunter finally got to go with Pake to the hospital. This was Pake's 59th surgery. He's way brave! He went into surgery at 7:00, and they released us at 11:30. He just wakes right up and is ready to go! They injected 18 ccs this time of ethonol alcohol to kill the extra veins in his hand and arm. Amazingly he has very little pain.

Our flight was at 3:00 pm and I thought we had plenty of time to get to the airport. Well, we barely made it. They wouldn't give us a boarding pass when we checked our bags, and they told us that we had to get it at our gate. Our gate was in terminal C and the LAST gate. We got there at 2:45 and they tell us they have 5 seats... there were 6 of us.... WOW! I paid for my tickets two months ago, but Soutwest overbooks.... I was ticked! Anway, they finally printed 6 boarding passess and let us on the plane about 2:59. I was soo glad to see Amarillo, Texas. I did not want to stay in Denver while everyone else got to come home....

We made lots of memories with Traci, Brooks, and Hunter! I was so glad they got to go with us and were able to see all the things we saw.... I think the boys will remember it forever!