Denver, Thrill Rides and Trains

Today we headed to Denver... Missy had found a thrill park she wanted to visit.. with lots of scary rides and a water park attached too. Elitch Gardens, right in the middle of down town Denver... we exited off of one freeway and did a big round the block thing where the kids jumped out and headed on their adventure (it is so nice they are big enough for that) and we got back on another freeway and headed out on our adventure.

picture from the ferris wheel

While they were doing thier thing we headed up into the hills to check out some more trains... it is a good thing we both love the same things :) The Georgetown Loop historic railway train. We drove up to Silver Plume and walked around the depot and the museum and took pictures of the train... the steam was not running that day and since the kids were not with us I did not feel comfortable getting on a 2 hour train ride in case something happened we would not be able to get to them. They may be big enough for some things.. but somethings they may never be big enough for :)


We then wanted to go just a little further... a few miles was all.. to go through the Eisenhower tunnel ... which is totally cool... but I should mention.. that once you make it through the tunnel... it is a bit of a drive straight down hill until you get to an exit... and then you have to turn around and go straight back up hill to get back. Going through the tunnel just to go through the tunnel is not a quick thing. It is cool that we went under the conitental divide... on this trip we have gone over it several times.

We then drove through Georgetown and stopped and got a burger down the road... headed to pick up the kids but the traffic was horrible... rush hour weekday traffic.. easy to forget about when on vacation... so we found a cool lookout and spent some time sitting in the motor home visiting and just enjoying having some time alone together. We did not even take advantage of the lookout to take photos... but it was a great view of all of Denver.

We picked up the kids and were on our way... I have to say that Denver was really pretty... the part of town we were in was very clean.. and the train tracks ran through it.. lots of train stuff.. and the sunset was like purple fire in the sky... very pretty. We drove to Rawlins Wy and spent the night in the flying J truck stop.