Kyle tours Denver with her surrogate daughter. Kyle loaded about 200 pictures of their adventures onto dropbox. This blog entry is a subset of those pictures. If you would like to see the rest of the pictures, please write and we can send the dropbox link. There are videos too!
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Denver & Elitch Gardens: I took Roni to a store called Rocket Fizz filled with candy and unique sodas, thus all the candy shots. The starburst are from my friend Meg. Her inlaws brought her some Russian cocktail starburst and she shared them with Roni. Elitch Gardens is an amusement park less than a mile away. We rode bikes over and will go again this week. Last set of images is Roni and I doing a test setup of the tent before going camping.
Denver Cruisers Themed Dress Night: In Denver every Wednesday from May until the end of Septemebr they have the largest organized bike ride in the nation. Each week they have a goofy theme to dress up as. This was Dress Night so you'll see pictures of dudes in dresses too. 2-3,000 cyclists ride through the city in the evening and meet up at a local park where we ride around and dance to music eating at food trucks until the park closes at 11pm. The girl you will see in a lot of the pictures is my friend Meg, who gave Roni the Russian starburst.
Road to Camping: Pictures of our drive down to The Great Sand Dunes National Park. We took the longer route down as it is through mountain passes. We made a quick stop at Red Rocks but we'll be going back this week for her to see it. You'll see pictures of food. We stopped at a national forest and ate lunch under a tree next to a creek. Any scenic areas we saw I pulled the car over to get pictures. There are lots of pictures I'm going to stitch together on photoshop to make as panoramic images.
Great Sand Dunes National Park: Setting up camp. Roni used her knot knowledge from camp to tie down the tent as it was windy in the evenings. We set out early the next day and hiked 8 miles on the sand dunes.
Zapata Falls: The road was a slow 3.5miles up a steep gravely, bumpy, crappy road. Then you walk a half mile up to not see a waterfall. Instead you have to get in the water and hike up the rapids using metal ropes attached to the mountain to keep you stable to see the waterfalls. The falls are located up in a rock crevasse. The water is ice cold but so worth the hike. Got some great views up on the mountain where the falls are located.
Sunset Sand Dune Pictures
We did a night hike with a park ranger this same evening but my camera didn't take any good shots. It was a perfect dark clear evening so we got to see the whole Milky Way.
Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour: Pictures of the drive up. Saw a llama farm and had to stop. The gold mine takes you 1000 ft under ground. They show off actual mining equipment in action, took videos of that. Roni tried pushing a 1 ton ore cart with little success. Mollie Kathleen was the first female to strike a claim for gold.
Garden of the Gods: Camera died so these are all taken on my phone. The rock formations are similarly made like that of Mushroom Rock. These are located in Colorado Springs.
White Water Rafting: Did a whole day rafting trip. We went out of Buena Vista, CO. It was about a 5hour trip through Browns Canyon. Roni fell off the boat once when they had us stand on the edge of the boat. She lost balance and went in. It was a pool of slow deep water so she was fine. I fell off and back slapped a rock during some rapids when the other boat smashed into us. Roni went into the air about 2 feet but the guide, Justin, grabbed her before she flew out. The pictures of Roni in the water are voluntary jump ins. The water was deep and slow so they let passengers jump off for a swim. For the last rapid of the day, they allowed volunteers to ride the rapids with their body. I captured a video of Roni doing this. When we got home we took Roni out for sushi.
Richard, Veronica, and our tour guide Kyle. Thank you Richard and Kyle for sharing your wonderful summer with Veronica.
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