Well, we had a great trip. R finally named the puppy Skylar and Skylar did great on the plane and in the airports. Every where we went with her people had to stop and admire her and pet her. She is absolutely precious. I have some phone pics to upload but that will be at a different time.
The first day we were there we went to the base and began our shopping excursions. R had to work in the afternoons but JT just happened to be off in the afternoons. He willingly drove us around and took us anywhere we wanted to go. It was a wild and crazy ride but he didn't complain. In fact, he laughed at our shrieks and our OMG's. Maybe he was trying to get us to not ask him to take us anywhere anymore?
On Friday we finally got to go to the top of Pike's Peak. I got a nice magnet up there that says, "I like it on top." This was my third time on the Cog railway but my first time to the top. It was cloudy but gorgeous. They said the temp on top when we arrived was 39 degrees but 45 min. later it was only 31 and snowing. I had envisioned it being a spectacular, near spiritual experience but the lack of oxygen made us a bit loopy and everthing was funny. Even when K dropped her $3 bottle of water into the toilet.
On Sat. we went to Old Colorado City, Garden of the Gods, we stopped briefly at a craft show and then to a huge antique mall. I have some pics from there on my phone but those will be later. We managed to find R and JT a table and chairs set for a reasonable price.
Sun. morning K and D decided that there was no way they were getting all their stuff back to TN in the bags they had brought so D went out with R and got 2 more bags. We all checked a bag and had 2 carry-ons each. Thankfully all our flights and check-ins were uneventful.
So, enough with the words. I know it's the pics you are really here for. This is in Manitou Springs at the base of Pike's Peak where you get on the Cog Railway Train. Manitou is such a cute little town.
This is why they call them the Rocky Mountains.
Someone put large plastic Easter eggs in a tree.
I love how the trees grow at an angle. You can tell it's quite an incline.
Apparently that's Kansas in the distance. They said on a clear day you could see 5 states from the top of Pike's Peak.
Above the tree line. That always amazes me.
Can you imagine living here in the early 1900's?
Like the Haitian proverb, Beyond the mountains, more mountains.
See all the birds perched up there?
This is a plaque about Katharine Lee Bates writing "America the Beautiful" after seeing the top of Pike's Peak.
I love this. Clouds above and clouds below.
Woot! We did it! (you'd think we hiked it)
There was a rainbow on the way back down.
My partners in crime, K and D.
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