Monday

Hi Friends - it's definitely warmer in Denver! I'll start out with a note about our hotel room. We're staying in a Holiday Inn Express just off the freeway. Yesterday Brian noticed that the fluorescent bulb(s) in the light above the bathroom sink was flickering. I didn't think it was a big deal. OK, I was wrong. (better make sure Brian reads this) This morning it was like taking a shower with a strobe light. Unfortunately, it's the only light in the bathroom and the only mirror in the room. Made putting in my contacts real interesting and it's a good thing we're not epileptic. We talked to them when we went down for breakfast and they've fixed it. Now about breakfast - they were out of orange juice, they didn't have any cold water and the room was really hot. So we packed up and went to McDonald's.

Our first stop was the Denver Downtown Aquarium. It was nice (Cincinnati is better and what aquarium has tigers, no not the sharks, the cats) but we had a good time. Audrey was pretty brave and touched a star fish and petted the sting rays.

Next we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. A very cool museum. We saw a movie in the planetarium about stars and Audrey even liked it. The BodyWorks exhibit is here so we saw that. This exhibit was in Columbus but we never went. It has real bodies that have been "plasticized" and posed. It also shows healthy organs and unhealthy organs. Audrey now knows what the stent looks like that Grandma has in her heart and what a cat's heart looks like. It was really very interesting. Then we visited some of the natural exhibits mostly about North American animals.

As we were leaving the museum I asked a lady at the information desk if she could recommend a restaurant. She recommended Annie's Cafe & Bar. We had a really good, relaxing meal. The decor is vintage/old movie posters and stuff from tv shows so they show whatever's playing on TCM. You'll notice in the photo of Audrey and I that we are genetically linked as we watched some movie from 1944. :)

Tomorrow is a short travel day, Denver to Colorado Springs/Manitou Springs.