Golden, Colorado

Joni was ready to go.

 We moved from the Cherry Creek State Park RV Campground to the Dakota Ridge RV Park in Golden, Colorado.  Dakota Ridge is a lot closer to Ken and the mountains, since it's on the west side of Denver.

We spent more time with Ken.  Hiking, bike riding, eating and just having a good time.

Delton needed a rest

 The Apex Trail was very close to our park.  As a matter of fact, it was walking distance away.  It starts out with a very steep uphill climb without shade, so it was a tough climb.  About 1 1/2 miles in, you arrive at the Enchanted Forest, a heavily wooded, very pretty area.  We hiked Apex one day by ourselves, and with Ken on another day.

The Apex Trail is also a mountain biking trail.  It's amazing to see how the mountain bikers travel over the rocks, tree stumps and tough terrain.  Sorry I didn't get any pictures of that.

Keri, Joni, Delton and Loren

We got to see our nephew, Loren and his family a couple times.
They moved to the Denver/Boulder area recently and are very happy to be in Colorado. Loren is a youth minister at Flatirons Community Church, so we decided to attend a service at Flatirons.  It's a very large church, with services held in an old Walmart.  After renovating the facility, it accommodates the church very well.

Loren and Keri, his wife, have 4 absolutely adorable daughters.  I'm so sorry I didn't get pictures of them, but we did get a picture with Loren and Keri in the lobby of Flatirons Church.  The girls are Abby, Emily, Rachel and Hannah.  It was fun to be around little girls as most of our family is all boys.  

Downtown Golden is a cute little historical town.  Walking along the river one afternoon, we saw some people enjoying kayaking in the river.  They had short river kayaks and were practicing their river techniques.  Sometimes they would tip over and have to right themselves in their kayaks.  A little scary to us.  I think it's called rolling over.  We'll stick to our open white water kayaks - (see previous posts).

 Our walk along the river continued.  Trees were  finally starting to turn.  Too bad we couldn't stay longer and see the Aspens in full fall color.

Strolling by the river

And now we are on our way back to Texas for the fall season.  Looking forward to seeing friends and family.