After that we made our way back to Garden of the Gods after I told Ty it would be over $100 for all of us to ride the cog railway up Pikes Peak. Since I did not have my camera, it did not bother me not to go back up, especially at that price. We'll do it next time. :)
So, off to Garden of the Gods we went....again. This time we started at the visitor's center...which had a lot of the history of the area , a restaurant, a gift shop, etc. Then we went over to the park area. Can I just say it was, in a word, Awesome! There was a movie about the park and the rock formations and how they got there that we did not watch but I had read online that you "can't see the park w/out seeing the movie" so now that I have seen the park, I wish we had watched the movie, because after leaving the area, I was wondering to myself how they DID get there. Anyone seen the movie?
Anyway, here are some photos...with my phone camera, of course...
to give you some perspective on this next photo...we were shorter than those trees at the bottom. Much shorter. I had a hard time fitting all of it in the viewfinder on the camera (phone).
This was taken from the car. IT is called "balancing rocks".
Love the expression on her face...this was from the visitor's center.
This is the best photo (in my opinion) that I got with the phone camera....shows the colors really well.
We did not ever get all the way through the park when, true to form, a storm blew in. This was a pretty heavy storm...and cold...and you can see how we are dressed. We had to run all the way back to the car, carrying Addie (Ty did..I would have had a heart attack if I had tried). and of course, true to form, we got to the car and it let up. We went back to the hotel anyway, as we were all soaked to the bone.
Tonight we just ordered dominos at the hotel. got out stuff packed up for the lonnnnnggg ride home tomorrow.
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