We have just returned from our vacation in Colorado. We spent 6 days in Denver, staying right in the centre of the town so we were close to the main shopping area and in walking distance of restaurants and attractions.
My host mum had a conference in Denver and that is why we were in Colorado. But for us it was a vacation. And so we weren't up till like 10 everyday.. Just slept till whenever. It was great!
While in Denver we visited the zoo and the aquarium. They are both amazing places. The zoo had almost every animal you could think of. It was like a mix of an aquarium and zoo. It was so hot which was nice for a change! Colorado weather is so much like Palmerston North weather. It can be all two seasons (they only have winter and summer) in one day. They also have an aquarium so we spent a few hours there on the day when it was just Hannah jnr and I. They had mermaids swimming around in one of the tanks so Hannah was over the moon when she saw them. We were just lucky we walked the wrong way cause we found them having photos with the public, so Hannah got a photo with them. She was one lucky girl!
At the zoo. Just blobbing out.
On a merry-go-round at the zoo :)
Because of the weather in Denver, it snowed one of the days we were there! So the day after it snowed we treked up to the Rockies and went tubing. It was so much fun. And it wasn't very busy so we didn't have to wait in line for the chutes for the tubing! It was so hot too!
We also made a trip down to a little place called Florence (it is more a hole than Ashhurst) to watch my host dad's sons baseball game. It was a pretty amateur game, but it was fun to see a game I had never watched before. It was nice to see a bit of Colorado also while we were driving. There is a place called Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs and there are unique red rocks there. It was an amazing piece of landscape.
Red Rocks at the Garden of the Gods
Baseball game in Florence.
The vacation was lovely and found out today that we are off to Miami in two weeks for another conference for the mom, so we get to go to keep her company :)
Bye for now!
xx
That is so cool!
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