We spent a few days in Fruita, Colorado on our way to Denver and took a hike on the Trail Through Time, a trail with dinosaur fossils and a dinosaur dig area.
Bob is looking in the area that is a “dig” sight in the summer months. When the people that dig here leave they cover the place with dirt so people like Bob don’t disturb their hard work.
Bob thinks this lizard is really cool. I think it’s rather creepy.
The dark part in this photo is part of a dinosaur's rib cage.
After our day on the hot, dusty dinosaur trail we decided to do something a little refreshing, so we took our bikes and rode the wine trail! Yes, free samples are given at EVERY WINERY!!
We bought a few bottles, and by the end of our day my basket was hanging way down. It was really hard to ride in a straight line with all that wine in my basket! The vineyards were so pretty.
In this vineyard you had to walk through their barrels of wine to get to the tasting room. It smelled so good!!
All the barrels were labeled, but no samples in this room.
We had our fill of wine and are now driving over the Rockies to get to Denver. They had snow a few days before we drove here, but thankfully the roads were bare.
This is very high, but not the highest Pass we crossed. We forgot to take pictures of the other summit elevations.
We camped at the Cherry Creek Campground in Denver, and this is a photo of some of our neighbors.
Denver is not too far from Colorado Springs so we decided to check out the Olympic Training Center.
It was really nice, and they had a path with representations of all the sports in the Olympics.
The field hockey exhibit was especially nice.
Team USA practices here. The gym was huge, and it was divided into basketball courts, volleyball courts, etc.
While our guide was explaining the different features of the gym I noticed inspirational messages from sports people on the walls of the gym. They had a very nice quote from Joe Paterno, but I didn’t get a picture of it.
The swimming pool was fantastic!
This is the athlete’s dorm.
This is our big surprise!!! Beth had to come to Denver for business and she came a few days early so she could spend time with us.
No medals, but we tried the medal stand out anyway.
We went past the field hockey exhibit again and checked it out more carefully.
Do you see what we saw? That’s Angie Loy, front and center! She played for West Perry, Old Dominion, and the USA, and she’s great!
They had a large display thanking donors. I’m sure these donors gave a lot of money and look who’s here…HIGHMARK!! Thanks Highmark!
Olympic torches were on display, behind glass. I would have loved to be able to hold one of these.
This sculpture is right outside the training center. It represents the athletes of the world and I thought it was really nice.
After leaving Colorado Springs we took Beth for a ride up Pike’s Peak on the cog railway.
Those cogs will take this train up that mountain, and, hopefully, down again.
It takes over an hour to get up there so Beth had her coffee and map ready.
Look another Balance Rock! They’re everywhere!!
You can see Colorado Springs on the way up.
We’re getting above the tree line, and the trees look smaller and we can see further and further away.
We’re here, and Beth still has that coffee. Everyone says you can feel the effects of altitude here and they sell donuts that make that feeling go away. I told Beth that she’ll need one of those donuts. She claims she won’t. We’ll see.
Let’s go get some donuts!
OK, OK, so Beth didn’t need a donut. I didn’t either, I just wanted one. Honest!
There was snow up here too!
It looks like we’re on top of the world from up here.
That’s our train. You can also drive up, or hike, but remember, it’s STEEP!
I like this one a lot!!
We had a great time with Beth during her visit to us in Denver. We hope she can do it again in another city.
