RED ROCKS

RED ROCKS (pictures later :)
Wednesday, Sept 20--reconstructed since my laptop crashed and burned.

We started out from Glenwood Springs, CO. On the advice of my aunt Carolyn, we stopped at a rest stop in the Glenwood Canyon and went for a nice walk alongside the river with the canyon walls just on the other side of the water. Although we were only yards away from Interstate 70, which was elevated a bit, we rarely heard the traffic because of the roaring of the river. Saying that Glenwood Canyon is “magnificent” is kind of like saying that a 7-course meal at a 5-star restaurant is “alright.”
After getting back into the van, we drove out of the canyon and through resort areas like Vail and Breckinridge. We made the mistake of pulling into a grocery store in Breckenridge to pick up some sandwich fixings for lunch. That little adventure left us wondering how anyone in the town can afford to eat with those prices.

We headed on into Denver. I had intended to work on my laptop, but the scenery was too striking to take my eyes off the trip. It is just as well that I didn’t do any work since it would have been lost in the great computer brain dump anyway. Just outside of Denver we stopped to see the Red Rocks Amphitheater.

We thought we might find a place to let the kids climb the rocks, but ended up just going into the amphitheater instead where we found a lot of stairs waiting to be climbed. We started at the top level, so we headed on down. I tried to talk Katia into going down on the stage and getting a feel for what it would be like to be on stage in such a big place, but she was too shy. She did eventually head down, but I couldn’t talk her into singing even one little note. Sophia was about to belt out “God Bless America,” but she changed her mind at the last minute.