Tuesday, September 01, 2009

With Ken in Denver

Ken, Joni's son, moved to Denver last year. We've enjoyed being able to see him more often, since we spend most of our summers in Colorado.

Since Ken knows the area real well now, we totally depended on his expertise for what to do and where to go. He took us first to Boulder, just a stones throw from Denver, for a hike. And what a hike it was..... very verticle. It was a challenge for Joni, but she felt it was well worth it! See Ken at the top of our hike. What a spectacular view. Joni didn't go to the edge like Ken did, but she was close. Thanks Ken, for a wonderful day!


On another day, we went to Breckenridge, a very popular ski area in the winter. We picked the wrong day, as it was rainy and cool. Our whole time in Denver, the weather was beautiful, except the day we went to Breckenridge.

We still enjoyed our time there. See the photo of the summer time ski slopes. They look like stripes coming down the mountain.

We passed a restaurant that had a beautiful display of flowers and Joni couldn't pass up the photo opportunity. Aren't the flowers colorful?

We stayed at the Dakota Ridge RV park in Golden, which is about 12 miles west of Denver. Little did we know that we were right at the beginning of Ken's construction job. He was working just a few miles from where we were staying. He's working on a joint venture to contruct a lite rail system which runs from Golden to Denver. It made it very easy to visit with him, often!

One afternoon, the three of us took a bike ride into downtown Golden and rode our bikes past a section of Ken's job where a new parking lot is in the process of being built for the rail system. See the photo.

We had a great time with Ken in Denver and know we'll be there again next summer. Delton gave Ken a few golf lessons because ken bought himself a new set of clubs, so next summer there will be a golf game in the works. I tried to take a video of Ken's swing while he was getting pointers from Delton, but I got the record and stop buttons mixed up. I got a lot of video my feet!!!!!!!! Sorry Ken. We'll try it again.