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Dion visited!

For the past week or so, a TON has been going on.  Dion flew out to Denver Airport on the 19th, and for that next week we spent all of our time traveling around and visiting the tourist attractions around Golden and Colorado Springs.  First we did the Alpine Slide which is about 10 minutes from my apartment.  Its located in a mini-amusement park, but the slide is all the way at the back. You take a lift up to the top of the hill (with lots of gorgeous views of Denver) and you ride a sled back down.  It was so much fun we had to do it again!

 

We also visited/hiked around the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.  It was SO bright out, it was difficult to get good photos.  We were squinting even with sunglasses on!  Hopefully I can see a show here someday, they were preparing for a concert when we visited, so they wouldn’t let us walk around inside the theatre, but we could get some pictures from the hiking path.

One of the nights we went to the Denver Museum and saw the IMAX movie about the repair of the Hubble Space telescope, and see the images it most recently collected.  It was an awesome IMAX to see, especially since most of the IMAX theatres in PA no longer show the information IMAX movies, they show the typical full length entertainment movies.  We also explored downtown and went to a few of the bars, including a really fun rooftop bar that offered a great view of the Coors stadium.

We also drove to CO springs so that we could go to the Garden of the Gods.  We passed the US Airforce Academy on the way there, but didn’t get the time to stop and visit it.  We hiked a bunch of the hikes available in Garden of the Gods, and saw some areas that I don’t think I saw last time I was there.  We were able to get some cool photos of Pikes Peak, and saw most of the park.  It was VERY hot, and we both felt sort of sick and tired towards the end.  We rehydrated, and ate some food, and then headed to Pikes Peak!  The drive wasn’t too bad in my Jeep, I remember it being much worse in the giant conversion van that made the journey when I was in highschool!  Dion wasn’t too fond of the drop off from the dirt road with no guard rail, but we made it to the top just fine!  It was pretty chilly and windy at the top, and we both felt dizzy from the altitude!

Before Dion left, we went to a Colorado Rockies game.  They played the Braves, and our seats were AWESOME.  Tickets are much cheaper out here than they are to go Phillies games back home.  It was an awesome game to go to, as the teams were neck and neck for most of it and the Rockies Won!!!  We sat in the second row, right at the outfield in foul ball territory.  I was about 2 inches from catching a foul ball, but just missed it.  It was a lot of fun, and I’m really glad we decided to go to the game. They even put Dion and I on the big screen when we were singing “take me out to the ball game!”  It was pretty awesome :)

 

We finished off his visit with a tour of the Coors brewery.  We should have gone there the first day!  Its right down the road from my apartment.  The tour is free, they put you on a bus and take you over.  The driver of our bus informed me that Mines students come every day, for the free beer.  The tour was a self-guided audio tour, and the gave us a sample of freshly brewed Coors.  At the end, we got 3 free 8oz beers!  That’s far more beer than I expected.  I need to go there more often ;-) lol

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