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Catching up with old friends...
... in the cute downtown of their neighborhood, called Old Colorado City - I love visiting places like this, because I have to drive to Mt. Dora around here to find a variety of non-chain/gift shops in one place (and I haven't been there in ages - the 50-min. drive doesn't help...). WOULD have stayed longer, if not for the guys calling to say it was time to head to the zoo with the kids (our last stop was this place, I adored it! So beautiful decorated ...
Todd and Emily's Wedding
I went out to Colorado Springs for Todd and Emily's wedding. It was a fabulous weekend with family and friends. The wedding was really nice--it fit Todd and Emily so well. The weather was perfect too! I got to see the Garden of the Gods and the Air Force Academy.
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Mountain Lows, Mountain Highs
... but the older ones are full of HOLES and haven’t been painted and are just cheap and unattractive. Maybe spend more money on the enclosure and not these hideous cheap ****** statues. Or maybe someone could make some DECENT statues to enhance the area. My point is that there are 1000 things this zoo could do to improve itself and it seems that they just focus on the new exhibits and forget the old ones. It’s a travesty. What is even ...
Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder...
... was a woman on duty there who told us that history, and she told us that the cross over the altar is 1200 pounds of aluminum and is called the Soaring Cross. (Looks like a dagger to me.) The pipe organ, she also told us, has 4000 pipes. There was also an FAQ sheet in a display case that informed us, in no particular order that:
1. No airplanes were harmed in the building of the chapel, though the aluminum used is the ...
Day 16
Today we took the Pike's Peak COG Railroad up to the top of Pike’s Peak which is 12, 110 feet high, only 400 feet shorter than Mt. Whitney. The COG railroad uses a third COG track in the middle of standard tracks that the engine uses to pull the train up the steep incline. A regular railroad can only go up a 6% grade. This train had several locations where we were going up a 25% grade. For those of you who don’t know how steep that is, ...