Our first excursions in Colorado

We're finally settled in our rental home so we thought we'd take the weekend to explore what the Denver Metro area has to offer. I wanted to do something fun for the kids since they've been dragged with us to boring adult places. So what better place than the Denver Zoo. Rick's Uncle Rico (his only living relative on his dad's side) lives just north of Denver so he and his partner Rebecca met us at the zoo. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of them, but I took some cute

pictures of the kids. And one cool picture of a Bison.

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We also took a little drive around our new little town Castle Rock and came to the entrance of the trail that leads up to "The Castle Rock".

The town was named for this butte we climbed (the early settlers thought it looked like a castle, hence, castle rock). And yes the kids climbed too, however, only to the base of the butte not the very top. I think I would've had a heart attack if we climbed to the very top.

Here's a picture of the boys along the trail. They were so excited to climb to the top I was lucky to get a good picture of them.

At the top! This a picture from the northeastern side of the base. Pretty nice view, don't you think? Our housing development is on the northwestern side of town so not in the background of this picture.

I thought this was a cool picture of Rick and the boys against one of the many rocks along the base of castle rock. The whole area is actually pretty rocky, but it makes the foothills look more interesting and beautiful.