Day 3 of our Vacation

So we took a drive down to a place called Cripple Creek. We stopped at a mine. They had all of these old rusty things that we kind of liked!
This is what the mine looked like where you go down.

Everyone who was going on a tour of the mine got a hard hat and then a coat if they needed one. We were going down 1,000 feet so it would be cold. This sign was the last thing we saw before we went down in the dark.

They put about six people in that tiny space and then there was another one right on top of that one.
This was our tour guide who works as a miner. He showed us how they used to mine through the years. He definitley fit the "miner look". His favorite thing to say after almost every sentence was, "Just one of those things". It got to be kind of funny!

At the end our guide picked out one of those rocks that had flecks of gold in it. This mine was one of our favorite things we saw on our vacation. At the visitor center in Cripple Creek they had a diagram of what the whole mine looked like. After we ate lunch we went drove through a town called Victor. They had lots of abandoned mines that you could walk through
We saw this off of the side of the road. It used to be a tunnel but I guess it wasn't sturdy so they built the road around it.

The last thing we did that day was we took a cog railway up to Pikes Peak. It was freezing all the way up there! We saw a couple of big horned sheep. The views were really beautiful. It was cloudy at the top so you couldn't see that far.

Day 2 of our Vaca

So it's been a little longer than a day since I've posted, but I found time today! ; ) So the first place we went was to the Manituo Cliff Dwellings. It's a remake of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings that you can go walk around through. It was neat to see and read about the history there.

This next photo we found these in a gift shop and thought they were funny!

The next place we went to was called the Cave of the Winds. We took tons of pics but hardly any of them turned out as well as they looked like in real life.
This next picture is what they call cave coral becuase it looks like under water coral. I think it's pretty!

Close to the top of the picture is what they call cave bacon. Do you see it?!?
This one was a column and then the floor shifted and the column broke.
The next place we went to was a cute little town called Manituo Springs. They had the best custard there yummo!


This bike was ginormous!!! I had the hardest time reaching the handlebars on that thing! This bike was just sitting on the sidewalk just begging for a photo! The last place we went to was called Seven Falls. It was beautiful!





This shows what a hike it was to get up there. I think there was at least 300 steps!!! Well I covered almost everything that we did our first full day in Springs.

Day 1 of our Vaca!

Well we finally were able to go somewhere this summer! We took a billion and one pictures so I'm going to just post 1 day at a time so this post isn't decades long! We decided to go to Colorado Springs on vaca. We drove for ages through Wyoming and saw a whole lotta nothing. We got to Colorado Springs on our anniversary about 7:00. We checked into our hotel and then went out to eat at Carrabbas. We got a free appetizer there which was a bonus! We stayed at a resort that had a private lake and beach, tennis courts, pool tables, and swimming pools.



So reallly we didn't have much time to do stuff our first day so I'll get to the fun stuff we did tomorrow!

Our Patio is finally finished!!

Well, we tried to have Dalyce tell us how to put that slide show up right and I guess we got half of it right! We have really enjoyed our patio so far! It's nice to have it done and not have to look at all the weeds. Of course we still have to move all of that extra dirt off of the hillside. Yep, fun times up ahead there. Our next adventure will be coming up soon. We are heading over to Colorado Springs for our 4th anniversary! I can't believe it's been that long already. We'll have more pictures to put up when we get back!!! ;o)