Saturday, July 19, 2014

Tuesday-Estes Park

The river next to the road on the way to Estes Park.

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A store called “Estes Ark.”

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Headed into Estes Park.

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We took the aerial tram to the top of a hill so we could overlook the mountains and Estes Park.

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Headed up the mountain.

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Going to the top.

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The view from the top.

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The Stanley Hotel.

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The walkway at the top.

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Headed back down the mountain.

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The river that runs through Estes Park.

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We ate lunch at Poppy’s pizza and grill and then we took a ride on the free trolley.

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We rode the trolley through all the stops and then headed back to downtown.

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We headed back to Loveland. These pictures are of some of the flood damage from the flood in September. Overall the river is cleaned up but some of these houses have no roads to them anymore.

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We went with Eric to Austin’s City Grill in Ft. Collins and then to the Alley Cat coffee shop. At the coffee shop they had a place in the bathroom where you could write notes and pin them to this screen and they also had sewing patterns decoupage to the wall.

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Each ceiling tile in the coffee shop was painted by a different artist. I took a picture of this one for Nate.

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The sunset on the way home.

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Monday-Pagosa Springs and Headed to Loveland

We took a walk along the river and had some coffee at a little café along the river. We saw lots of chipmunks.We took our time and enjoyed the morning including another dip in the mineral pools before we headed out.

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The flowers outside our room.

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Headed out of Pagosa Springs.

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Treasure Falls at the start of Wolf Creek Pass.

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Headed up Wolf Creek Pass.

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The San Juan Mountains.

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These pictures are somewhere between Salidas and getting on I-70.

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We were greeted by a heavy rain and hail storm on I-25.

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Loveland. We made it.

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