4) Climb a 14er - DONE
For those who haven't heard, a 14er is commonly referred to in these parts as one of 53 mountains over 14,000 feet in Colorado. We ended up missing our chance to climb one last summer because the season for 14ers is so short if you don't want to deal with too much snow (mainly late June, July, and August). This year I was determined to do one before we left town. For our hike, we choose the standard route to the top of Mt Bierstadt, about 6.5 miles (round trip) with ~ 3000 feet of elevation gain. Despite being one of the "easier" 14ers, we had to stop a lot when the climbing got steeper and the air got thinner. Even though we followed all the rules as far as starting early, the weather (hail storm and some rumbling) came early, when we were almost on the summit at 11:00am. We scrambled up the last 200 feet or so with whatever remaining energy we had left, we looked around for a few minutes, took a few pictures, and then quickly headed back down the mountain to avoid any danger. By the end when we reached our car, the storm was getting pretty close and violent - a nice time to say goodbye to the great outdoors and head home.
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5) Go to a Rockies Game - DONE
Denver is a big pro-sports town, yes you hear about college sport teams now and again, but it is really the professional sports that rule. We've been to a Broncos game, we've been to a Nuggets game, but we'd never seen the Rockies. All that was cured on the July 4th fireworks game.
We had pretty good seats, the crowd was into it, and the Rockies ended up winning pretty big. All this meant that it was a lot of fun, except of course the big rainstorm that came rumbling through around the 5th inning. Minus the 1 hour and 47 minute rain delay huddling with hundreds of other people to find shelter on the upper deck, it was a cool experience. It was one of those instances where you've just about made up your mind to leave, and then they announce that the game will be back on in 30 minutes. We stuck it through till the end, and even though they were a bit late, the fireworks show was pretty cool.
6) Go to Casa Bonita (or the Broadmoor) - DONE
Sorry Mike, but Casa Bonita doesn't look like its going to happen. I ended up winning the grand prize raffle at my company golf tournament, which was a rather large gift card at the Broadmoor. So, instead of going to Casa Bonita (the kids place where everyone gets sick off the food) we ended up being pampered and getting free food and drinks at this incredible 5-star resort. It was certainly the fanciest hotel we have ever stayed at; it was almost annoying how "helpful" everyone was being...you couldn't carry a bag 10 feet without being tackled by bellhops and other attendants. It was amazing how much money you could blow in a place like that...two fancy meals, a few after dinner drinks, and one golf shirt went through almost $800!! Casa Bonita will have to be motivation for us to move back...
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