Colorado!

The weekend of July 16/17th we made another trip to Colorado to implement Josh's Father's Day gift.  We had originally planned to go in August but the racing company changed their dates and it would not have worked out with the start of school. 

We hit the road on a Friday morning.  Along the way we passed miles and miles of burnt forest from the Raton fire. :-( 

Once we arrived at the hotel, can you guess what the first thing the kids wanted to do was??

On Saturday morning, we headed into Denver and went to the Denver Aquarium.

It is THE best aquarium I've ever been to, including the National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD!

Alex was a BIG fan of the shark tank, which was huge and had glass floors to see sharks underneath you too!  He liked pointing them out, telling us what kind they were, and everything we needed to know about sharks!

They even had sawfish, which the kids thought were so cool!

They also put on this mermaid show, which was also a big hit....even with Daddy.  :-)

Both Alex and Aurora got to touch rays in the tough tank.  They could have fed them too, but the handlers said they were not eating that morning for some reason.

We stopped at had lunch at the AMAZING Aquarium restaurant!

Can you guess which awesome dessert we got?

While eating, the mermaids came to visit us again and I got this great video of them flirting with Alex!

On Sunday, we went to the Pikes Peak International Raceway for Daddy's big day!  Here are some of the beauties out for driving.

Josh drove a Porsche 911, but said it didn't even compare to the F2000 car that he was able to drive as fast as he wanted, for 6 laps around the track!   Not to brag (ok a little), but I got this awesome shot of him going over the line at 200mph!

Happy Daddy!

We spent the rest of the weekend at the pool and relaxing!