Since Veterans’ Day was a Wednesday, Mac has a four-day weekend last week. The weather was really nice (and yet it snowed yesterday morning), so we headed over to Seven Falls. Seven Falls is a natural waterfall in a box canyon on the western edge of town. It was privately owned for decades until a…
While my in-laws were in town, we stopped at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument before we went to Cripple Creek. It preserves a grouping of fossilized redwood trees and other (mainly insect) fossils after a volcanic eruption resulted in a the formation of an ancient lake. The park has several hiking trails that allow…
So we visited the Denver Zoo back over Memorial Day weekend. Clearly, I was highly motivated to upload the photos to my computer. We decided to take a day trip to Denver and to explore the Denver Zoo. It’s a pretty standard zoo and is similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. One…
I think I mentioned that Mac and I are members of our local zoo. Thursday night, the zoo hosted a fundraiser called Moonlight on the Mountain. A bunch of local restaurants and breweries set up sample tents around the zoo campus, and this event was mercifully 21 and over only. No kids at the zoo…
Y’all, I am all about being a hometown tourist. I tried to explain this to my husband and many friends from Northern Virginia who hadn’t explored DC since middle school. If you can explore and do fun things around your town, you might as well. Guide books and your local paper are great resources to…
The weather this past weekend was spectacular, so Mac and I decided to go exploring. We headed up to the Denver area to explore Red Rocks. Red Rocks is a park containing monolith red sandstone formations very similar to Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. It sits above Denver at over 6400 feet above…