A rainbow near Evergreen, CO
I’ve been in Colorado for two weeks and I have to say I love it here. I’ve seen more wildlife in the last 2 weeks than I had seen in the last two years. So far I’ve seen deer, elk, buffalo, hawks and LOTS of Canada geese, and we saw an amazing shooting star one night as we drove home. There’s also something really great about having an amazing view of the Rockies every time I go out.
Patrick is working a lot so we’ve been trying to go out and see something every day that he has off. So far we’ve done pretty well. It seems like there is so much to do here that it’s hard to stay inside. Today I just went out for a good walk with the dogs. We walked to this park where there were hundreds of Canada geese resting up before continuing on their way down south. I wish I had had my camera with me. Maybe I’ll go back tomorrow.
The other day we took a bike ride from Patrick’s mom’s house in Aurora all the way into downtown Denver. I think we biked about 15 miles or so altogether. The great thing was that at the end of the day we just hopped on the light-rail with our bikes to come home. While we were downtown we rode around and saw some of the sights. We also went to the Colorado History Museum and the Tattered Cover. The history museum was pretty small but it was interesting and the Tattered Cover is this great bookstore they have here.
Chatauqua Park
On Monday afternoon Patrick and I drove up to Boulder and went for a little hike in Chatauqua Park. I’m still adjusting to the high altitude here and couldn’t breathe so it wasn’t a particularly long hike but we did find a herd of white tailed deer. We were able to get incredibly close to them and take some really cool photos of them. They were obviously pretty used to humans but we still didn’t get too close.
Deer
On Sunday Patrick was working so his mom and her boyfriend Nick took me up to Red Rocks and Georgetown. Red Rocks is this amazing outdoor amphitheater which opened in 1941. Lots of really famous bands, like The Beatles, have performed there. I’ll have to come back in the summer to catch a show. Georgetown may be the cutest town I have ever seen. The day we went up there was a Christmas festival going on so there was a horse drawn sleigh, chestnuts roasting on an open fire and carols playing in the streets. It was like walking onto a movie set. Georgetown was originally a mining town in the 1860s and there are actually still several buildings from that time standing.
Me at Red Rocks
It's like a postcard.
Eating chestnuts by the fire.
