Back In Action

It's time for a celebratory picture post. We got the laptop back yesterday! After 10 days in the shop and I won't say how much money, it is charging again like a dream. Since I didn't have any luck getting pictures up on Matt's computer, I am going to change my long streak of boring wordy posts with some pictures of our weekend with Jake.

The funny thing about when Jake comes out, there is always "bad" weather, as in rain, cold or dreariness. He came out last August and it was the first weekend we had experienced two days straight of rain since we moved in early July.
Our intention on Saturday morning was to head down to Colorado Springs and take the cog railway up Pike's Peak. However, my breakfast making and taking the dogs to day care

on the way down spoiled that and caused us to be late for the 10:40 train. Since we were going to the Rockies game that night and couldn't wait for the next one at 1:40, we didn't get to go up Pike's Peak. We were not sure if we would have seen much anyway with the cloudy rainy weather. However, I bet Jake would have seen some sunshine...Pikes Peak is over 14,000 feet tall, often higher than the low cloud deck.

Anyhow, we decided to "explore" the Cave of the Winds as an alternative. It was a little cheesy, but we made it fun.

Here is Matt just inside the cave.

As my dad will attest, you will rarely catch me with my eyes open if I know when the camera is going to flash...

Heading down a stairwell in the cave. We took the basic tour, so it was lit the entire way and there were hand rails and man made paths...very authentic to the cave. :) However, there are some pretty cool formations in the cave, including an 8.5 foot long stalagtite.

Here, Matt and Jake donned some animal hats and were acting goofy in the gift shop after the tour.

Matt likes to get pictures of himself pretending to disobey the signs in Colorado...


He didn't really throw the rock, don't worry!

The cave employees claim they need your picture taken in case you get lost in the cave, then they try to sell it to you for $10.00. We cheated a little bit.

The view looking down from the cave. It kind of looks like I'm standing on a cliff's edge to get the picture.

Later that night, we went to a Colorado Rockies game. We sat with one of Matt's co-workers (Allen) who got us awesome discounted lower level seats. The Rockies lost 6-5 to the Dodgers, but it was an exciting game to the end.

Sunday, we went to Golden and had lunch at Woody's Woodfired Pizza, a favorite place of ours to take visitors. It is a pizza buffet with all kinds of weird toppings, all baked over a fire. After that, we took a tour of the Coors Brewery. Here is Jake posing by his favorite beer. :)

The copper barrells where the beer is brewed never fail to impress me. There are just SO MANY!

Matt tried on another goofy had in the gift shop. I think he likes goofy hats.

A family of geese outside the brewery. Apparently, they like to swim in the cooling pond. Don't worry, they don't brew the beer with that water!

And finally, some obligatory photos of Pongo and Perdi.

She CAN'T be up to anything good under there!

That carpet must smell good!