Colorado Springs

Week two we stayed in Colorado Springs, which is a beautiful town at the base of the Rocky Mountains. We actually stayed in a town north of it a bit in a town called Palmer Lake, which had basically nothing but a few quaint coffee shops where Danny and I experimented around and had coffee each morning at a different place.  We had a beautiful, comfortable home that we rented as our  "home base" and went around the area from there.

One of those days we drove into the neighborhood that had over 300 homes burned in the fire, and we saw signs of support for the firemen everywhere.

It was really sobering to see the homes lost... in this one all that's left is this arch...

Cars were burned in their garages...

We did go and see a rodeo in Colorado Springs, which was sorta cool, but Hannah was so affected by the poor calves getting roped around the neck and then tied up, she just wasn't enjoying it at all.  We didn't end up staying for the whole thing.

Finally a people shot! Jacob and Hannah!  But only because they didn't know I was taking it... argh...

Jacob enjoyed going back to his childhood and eating some cotton candy.  

Before we even left home, we had planned to take the kids to a concert at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, so we bought non-refundable tickets.  We nervously watched the weather for the night... what we were expecting was this...

But what we got was this.

We went anyway, and waited through one big storm, and then it started to clear up, so we thought the show would go on.  Then they announced that there was another storm cell moving through and they were waiting for that to come and go before the musicians would come out and begin.  By that point we were already soaked and disheartened.  When they told us to "hunker down" and endure the next storm, we decided it just wasn't worth the wait.  Oh well, maybe another day...