Tuesday we started our sight-seeing! First we headed to Garden of the God, a park with beautiful red rock formations and lots of trails.
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| Garden of the Gods Park, and you can see Pike's Peak in the background |
We left Garden of the Gods and headed to Manitou Springs, a little moutain town close to Pike's Peak. I love these little towns because they are so Americana. We walked through the town, ate lunch, and the kids played at this unique park.
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| it was like a merry-go-round, but funner |
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| a neat disk swing |
After that we headed to Pike's Peak to ride a cog train to the top of the mountain. The train ride was something for Jack since he absolutely loves trains. Round trip, I think the ride was about two hours. The train couldn't get all the way to the top that day, because of the snow, but we got about 13,000 feet high.
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| the train at the bottom of the moutain |
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| Arden and Jack on the train |
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| Jack cheesing for the camera, but he's too busy looking out the window to look at me. He's sporting his coon-skin cap that we picked up at the Garden of the Gods gift shop. He needed something to keep his head warm as we made our way into the higher elevation |
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| There's a point on the train ride where the train is completely surrounded by walls of snow. |
The neatest part was the changing temperature. It was in the seventies at the base of the mountain, but 29 degrees at the top!
We weren't quite ready to head home after the train, so we stopped at a nearby cave tour thingamajig. It turned out that the caves were expensive to tour and looked kind of boring, so we did some of the activities that were featured above the caves. Halle and I rode a zip-line ride through part of the canyon. We also did a ropes course. Ok, Halle did the ropes course; I attempted. I froze up on the first level and chickened out. Halle mastered it, and before I knew it she was on a rope out over the canyon!
We wrapped up our day by grabbing Mexican-ish food on the way home. ;)
It was a great start to our week of touring.
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