have you been watching

OK so I have not posted, I am just a little remote so here you go.

We arrived in Denver, did a little sightseeing had lunch at a Mexican Restaurant and then visited REI, what a playground for us... After many hours at REI we did some more driving around and then had a good dinner at Old Chicago downtown. It was a little rainy and cool so it was kind of a slow night but it seemed to be picking up as we slowly started to get tired. We checked into a Marriott Courtyard, it was in Lakewood where Mike used to live so he knew his way around.

The next morning, he took us up to Red Rocks where we walked a little, gasped a little, at the beauty and the lack of air. I had not realized it was like a museum to Music, some of the best music acts have played there. I took a good load of pictures soon to be posted, then we took off and went to the mountains.

Mike will probably remind me of other stuff, but we went to Empire where the original Hard Rock Cafe is, basically it's a country cafe with great food. We ate some delicious food and hit the road shortly afterwards. On our way to Steamboat Springs, where we were going to spend some time at Strawberry Springs Park.

I will post plenty of pictures but for starters we rolled into Steamboat, shopped a little at Wal Mart and then on up to Strawberry Springs where there is a pristene, natural hot spring. I expected it to be very rustic but they have done a beautiful job of moving rocks around and creating 6-10 little pools all over the area that collect varying degrees of the water from the spring. We also checked into a rustic!!! cabi on top of a hil overlooking the spring area. This is where we spent the night and it was awesome. First though we went to Steamboat again, about 20 minutes away, and ate some dinner, before returning to the springs that were open to us until midnight. We sat in the hot springs for a good long while, watched the sun set and then watched the stars in the sky. That all sounds wierd for 3 guys, but really it was spectacular, it felt like being in a planetarium, it was soooo clear. That night at the cabin we slept pretty well, three futons one on the floor, on full size on a wood platform and one single also on a platform. We even had a visit from some critters in th night that knocked over the garbage can outside. Evereybody's thought was bear, but of course noone wanted to check.

Well more later about Leadville, we are here now, the hotel is nice. The town is very western mining town and we are excited to be here....more to come

Call the Silver King Inn 719-486-2610 ask for my room. We have NO CELL COVERAGE be advised so call the hotel please.