Honeymoon In Denver

We decided to take our honeymoon in beautiful Denver Colorado. We both had a blast exploring the area and spending time with one another. We did run into a few problems while in Denver like sharing the zoo and Elitch Gardens with all the school kids on their end of year field trips, also a few stupid teenagers at our hotel.

On Monday we started out with our trip to the Denver Zoo. We got to see all sorts of animals from the African Elephants to exotic fish from all over the world. Randi was able to see her Flamingos up close and I got to see the apes active.

After the zoo we were off to Golden Colorado to the Coors Brewery. Most are wondering why two Mormons went to a brewery when they don't drink, well we didn't drink any beer that was offered. It was interesting to see how beer is made. One of the funny things that happened on our self guided tour is when we started there was about 15 people with us and about half way through there was only us, everyone else just hurried to the end for their free beer.

Tuesday Randi and I made the trip down to Colorado Springs where we first explored the Garden of the Gods, which are some beautiful red rock formations. After our walk through the garden we went to the Manitou Cliff Dwellings.

These partly reconstructed Native American dwellings that are about 800 years old. It was both fun and interesting to walk through the ruins and learn a lot about Pueblo culture and Architecture.

After having a little trouble we made it to the COG rail train depot where we took an hour and a half ride to the top of Pikes Peeks. For two people enjoying their honeymoon at 5 to 6 thousand feet we were a little unprepared with hoodies at 14,000 feet. When we reached the peak the conductor of the train stated that the temperature was 25 deg. outside without the windchill factored in, just a little cold from the 70 deg weather of the valley below.

After quickly moving inside to the gift shop we got some doughnuts and a hot chocolate to build our confidence to go back outside for a photo. In moving across the snow and ice to the overlook Randi slipped and spilt the hot chocolate all over her. From her head to her feet one side of her body was soaked in hot chocolate, which did not help with the temperature. Once we got our picture taken we quickly went back inside til our train departed back down the hill.

On Wednesday we went to the Denver Temple to do an endowment session. We both enjoyed doing something that is not part of the main attractions.

After relaxing a little while at our hotel we were off to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science where we went to Body Wolds exhibit on the heart (I felt like I was taking anatomy class all over again). We both found it very interesting and educational.

Since we were already at the museum we decided to take a look around at the different exhibits that they had. The best exhibit we found was the planetarium where they had a bunch of games like docking a space shuttle (its harder than it looks) and use radio waves to find objects buried in sand.

Thursday morning we went to the Lagoon of Denver, Elitch Gardens. It is an amusement park right in downtown. We hit the main roller coasters first and had a blast until we both got incredibly nauseous after the fourth ride. We then had pizza and lots of water, hit the Ferris Wheel and left.

Since we were already downtown we went to Coors Field to see where the Rockies play. We were really disappointed that they were on the road the entire week were there.

Friday morning we had to head back to reality, but on our way out of town we stopped to see where Buffalo Bill is buried. The grave is overlooking the city of Denver. It was a nice stop before our 8 hour drive back to Utah. Too bad you can't have two honeymoons because we really did have a great time.