We had a fun adventure in Colorado last weekend. Rick and I drove over last Thursday and arrived in time to pick Dave and Courtney up from the airport. It took us about 7 1/2 hours to drive over and they decided to fly so they could attend their classes that day before leaving. We stayed in Denver that night and got up ready to see the city.
Here is a shot outside the state capitol building in Denver.
Dave and Courtney inside the rotunda of the capitol. They are such a cute couple, if I do say so myself! We had such a good time with them and enjoyed many great conversations.
Here is a shot outside the state capitol building in Denver.
Dave and Courtney inside the rotunda of the capitol. They are such a cute couple, if I do say so myself! We had such a good time with them and enjoyed many great conversations.
Inside the Brown Palace Hotel. This is the hotel where we stayed on our honeymoon over 29 years ago. It is a beautiful, stately five star hotel and we loved seeing it again. This is the stained glass ceiling in the lobby. While we were on our honeymoon, we visited Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Boulder. This trip we got to see two of the four cities and enjoyed remembering our honeymoon adventure to Colorado.
This is the stadium (Invesco Field) where President- elect Obama gave his acceptance speech after being nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
The posers outside the Brown Palace with a very cold cowboy.
A beautiful church across the street. Denver has some amazing architecture and old buildings that have been beautifully restored. It has a wonderful downtown area.
We're still going strong after all these years of beginning life together and spending our first night at the Brown Palace!
Looking around downtown Denver.
The mile high marker outside the capitol building.
This was a very interesting display we came across in the capitol showing things from Mongolia, of all places. It was very interesting to see.
Go MONGOLIA!
Woot woot for Ulaanbaartar! Andy's home away from home!
Before the BYU-Air Force football game, all the cadets came out on the field dressed in uniform. It was a magnificent sight. It makes you really proud to be an American. The Air Force Academy is a very classy place and all their people were so kind and professional. The people in the stadium take presenting the colors of our flag very seriously and it was completely quiet for the flag and the National anthem. We didn't get flipped off or sworn at once! In fact, fellow tailgaters were very helpful and kind to us. Those same courtesies won't be be extended this weekend when BYU plays the evil alleged University of Utah (.....how ironic is that?)
We spotted our friend Tie Tie Phillie (not his real name) on the field during the game! He is an equipment manager for the BYU football team. He is the one right in the middle of the picture just to the right of the group of football players. GO TY!
Here he is retrieving the kicking tee after another kick off. It was fun to see him in action! He's the one in the dark blue suit (not the kicker in uniform on the field...hahaha) BYU beat Air Force by the score of 38-24. The Cougs are now 10-1 on the year.
We got A LOT of good shopping in on Friday afternoon. We went to these HUGE outlet malls called the Castle Rock outlets and used our friends and family discount card given to us by Claire. We made a haul and got a bunch of good stuff and a lot of Christmas shopping done. Our truck (oops I meant trunk) was stuffed to capacity and we barely made it home.
*****More pictures to come with R and Claire. They came to Denver on Friday night and we continued our fun weekend with them through Sunday*****
This is the stadium (Invesco Field) where President- elect Obama gave his acceptance speech after being nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
The posers outside the Brown Palace with a very cold cowboy.
A beautiful church across the street. Denver has some amazing architecture and old buildings that have been beautifully restored. It has a wonderful downtown area.
We're still going strong after all these years of beginning life together and spending our first night at the Brown Palace!
Looking around downtown Denver.
The mile high marker outside the capitol building.
This was a very interesting display we came across in the capitol showing things from Mongolia, of all places. It was very interesting to see.
Go MONGOLIA!
Woot woot for Ulaanbaartar! Andy's home away from home!
Before the BYU-Air Force football game, all the cadets came out on the field dressed in uniform. It was a magnificent sight. It makes you really proud to be an American. The Air Force Academy is a very classy place and all their people were so kind and professional. The people in the stadium take presenting the colors of our flag very seriously and it was completely quiet for the flag and the National anthem. We didn't get flipped off or sworn at once! In fact, fellow tailgaters were very helpful and kind to us. Those same courtesies won't be be extended this weekend when BYU plays the evil alleged University of Utah (.....how ironic is that?)
We spotted our friend Tie Tie Phillie (not his real name) on the field during the game! He is an equipment manager for the BYU football team. He is the one right in the middle of the picture just to the right of the group of football players. GO TY!
Here he is retrieving the kicking tee after another kick off. It was fun to see him in action! He's the one in the dark blue suit (not the kicker in uniform on the field...hahaha) BYU beat Air Force by the score of 38-24. The Cougs are now 10-1 on the year.
We got A LOT of good shopping in on Friday afternoon. We went to these HUGE outlet malls called the Castle Rock outlets and used our friends and family discount card given to us by Claire. We made a haul and got a bunch of good stuff and a lot of Christmas shopping done. Our truck (oops I meant trunk) was stuffed to capacity and we barely made it home.
*****More pictures to come with R and Claire. They came to Denver on Friday night and we continued our fun weekend with them through Sunday*****
5 comments:
Um....your truck? :) I love it! I have no real memory of Denver as I went there as a kid. I'll have to go back sometime soon. I love the pics of Tie Tie. What a fun job!
That was a great trip, and we had a wonderful time. Jord, too bad you were too involved in junior high or high school and finked out on at least one trip over to Air Force. If you hadn't you would have a better memory of the place.
ree ree
Yeah what is up with the truck comment...please don't become like a certain person we know. My pictures are in the mail to you as of yesterday so I hope to be honored as well. It was pretty sweet to see Ty in action.
I remember Denver, ha ha.
What a fun trip! It looks cold though. Was the game weather miserable? Did Dave and Courtney fly home or drive with you? Maybe you didn't have room for them with all your shopping treasures!
The weather was cool but not bad Lee. It started getting colder after the sun went down. D&C drove home with us. We brought Fuhri wheat to Claire and R, so luckily we had some room for D&Cs stuff. Our trunk was stuffed though - we couldn't have fit one more feather in it!
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