We moved from Wal-Mart's this morning. It's going to snow tonight and having a power hookup will be nice. In addition, we've been out for a week now and those tanks were getting full and empty as is inappropriate. We dumped the holding tanks and filled the water and LPG tanks. Since it's freezing were not hooking up to water and sewer. Who wants to play with frozen and/or broken hoses. Were amateurs at cold weather camping and have a older California type RV, as in compartments and holding tanks not insulated or heated. and single pane windows. To top that, our electric heater has gone bad. This time it goes in the trash.
It's rained all day, heavier into the early evening. Supposed to snow before morning?
We headed over to the hospital to visit with Virginia but I got ill and Lou went up by her self. Vicky was ill today as well. Not sure what it was but best guess is Boca de Beppo's food.
Lou did our laundry in the parks laundry room. This park has a nice laundry and shower rooms. It's kind of unusual in that you get a key to one of the many shower/bathrooms. The room is shared with other sites but the campers only have access to one room. That means serial showers for each site. Unusual but does control access.
There are lots of bunnys hanging around the RV spaces.
The RV park is also next door to Prospect Park, one of the many nice parks in the area. There is a nice lake there.
Tuesday:
I felt worst today. Full force of food poisoning. What fun! I just lounged around all day.
Lou went over to see Virginia at the hospital. She's much better. The respirator is gone and she got to eat again finally.
On her way back, she got a good dose of thrift store shopping.
Wednesday:
Pretty much the same as yesterday. Lou did more shopping and visiting.
In the evening, I finally got to have a little chicken noodle soup.
Thursday:
Feeling better this morning. Lou and I took a walk around the lake in Prospect Park next door. Lots of geese there. About noon, we went to breakfast at the Apple Ridge Cafe nearby. A full parking lot each time Lou passed by, tipped her off to a very good restaurant. We shared a nice chicken fried steak breakfast. This is the first real solid food I've eaten in 3 days. We saw a great looking breakfast burrito pass by while we were waiting to be seated but opted for a more bland breakfast.
We visited Virginia at the hospital. I haven't seen her since I've been ill. What a difference. It's good to hear her talk again.
We went over to Golden to look around. In Golden, at the General Store, there are a lot of metal enamel plate pictures. One of them includes a picture of my nephew John's Chevy. He's very proud of that car.
We did some more laundry and relaxed around home most of the rest of the day.
Friday:
Another breakfast at the same great Apple Ridge Cafe. This time, we shared an outstanding wet Breakfast Burrito.
After a visit to Virgina we went by the Mint to see if we could get a tour. Nope, tours all full. So we toured the capitol building. Colorado has one of the nicest capitol buildings we've toured. We had a nice tour guide, an 81 year young lady that was a fountain of information, and energy.
The Marble in the building is unique. All the marble from the quarry used was consumed to build the capitol building. There are some images in the marble if you look closely. This one shows George Washington.
Denver is another town with oddly painted fiberglas art figures. Here, they have a lot of Cows downtown. This fiberglass art is almost as ubiquious as , say, Starbuck Coffee Houses. Here is the required picture of where we are staying at Prospect RV Park.
After the tour we were hungry so we dropped by the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. We shared a pork chop dinner and a piece of chocolate tower cake. Then off to home.
Saturday:
After our morning visit to Virginia we went to the Zoo. Denver has one of the nicest zoos we've been to. The animals were well displayed, looked healthier than most zoos and the animals seemed to be interested in being seen. All this made for a nice visit.
The Denver Zoo has a new Gorilla baby. Daddy doesn't seem worried.
There are lots of nice animals at this zoo. I wonder if they'd be good house pets?
We stopped by a Qudobo Mexican restaurant for dinner and then a visit to Virginia. We then dropped by Vicky's house for a short visit. Her front door lock wasn't working right so I fixed it. We then stopped by the market for some items before heading home. It started to rain fairly heavily just after we were inside. It had been dry all day until then. Nice day.
Sunday:
We wanted to get an early start today, and did! Wow.
We headed downtown to Virginia's after breakfast at home. We ran into roadblocks due to a marathon race and a police officer who evidently wasn't paying attention at his traffic control training sessions. We had to cross the route twice. At the first, the officer let cars through between runners. at the second, the inattentive officer didn't. So, we parked the car and walked the remaining three blocks to the hospital. When we returned, the race was almost over, there were several blocks between straggler runners and we were allowed through.
We went to the the Denver Nature and Science Museum which took us all day for a quick look. They have really great panorama displays of stuffed specimens of all sorts. There is also a great view of the downtown Denver skyline with the mountains behind from the 4th floor observation deck.
A nice view of downtown Denver with the Rockies beyond from the Denver Nature and Science Museum.
We plan on leaving Denver tomorrow morning heading toward Santa Fe, New Mexico. We ant to get out before the next storm on Wednesday.
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