Oh the sunshine

Our first night in Colorado we went to dinner near Wash Park with Mike & Kelly and Scott (who we knew from Oxford) and Emily, Brad, and Julie (Grant's sisters and Emily's husband). After a nice evening of drinking fat tire ale and living vicariously through Julie's dating life stories, we stopped in at a nice local bar - maybe dive is the more appropriate word - (the campus lounge) with $6 coors light pitchers and watched the Denver Nugget's basketball team barely lose in the playoffs.

Emily gave us a tour of Denver the next day, and in the evening we went to our second baseball game of the trip (pictured - and Cambell's first ever) and saw the Colorado Rockies send out home run after home run.

On Wednesday, we drove up to Estes Park near Rocky Mountain National Park and spent the next couple days hiking, checking out the local wildlife (elk pictured), and enjoying the beautiful scenery (Bear Lake pictured - over 10000 feet).

Friday night found us back in Denver and out with our friends, a jaunt to Boulder with the McFaddens on Saturday, and over to Scott and Lyndee's for breakfast on Sunday (pictured), with a bbq in the evening back at Mike and Kelly's.

Monday morning we packed our things and flew on back to San Diego to spend one more night with Dan and Alisha. We had a fun night out playing pool in Ocean Beach, and Claire was treated to a morning at Alisha's spa the day we left, a relaxing beginning to a long day traveling.