Trip to see Denver

Yeah, yeah, it's not as awesome as the mountains and other stuff, but still, we wanted to see it. We got up early, had breakfast and started up I-25.  Everyone was just blown away by the mountains on the left and just the scenery in general.

We went to Confluence Park in Denver and parked near Elitch Gardens. We walked around and saw these cool bikes you could rent and peddle around at this REI near there. We went across a stream and down a few blocks, back across and then up near what I think is a section called LoHi. We parked the bikes and found this really cool Ice Cream place. They had ice cream, gelato and sorbet. I had salty caramel, peanut butter, chocolate ice cream. Martina had a lemon basil sorbet. Chad had banana gelato and Annika had chocolate malt ice cream. This place has all you can eat pancakes and ice cream on the weekends!

After that, we walked a good ways back to our car and then drove to the 16th Street Mall area. We found a Tilted Kilt and decided to stop there. Annika was afraid she wasn't allowed in. lol. Martina had a pretty good flat bread pizza. My burger was way over cooked.

After that, we met Martina's new friends at the Balistreri Winery.  They have a huge selection of wines for tasting. Martina even liked the white wines! She loved their zinfandel. It wasn't like a typical one. I didn't care for the dessert wines. Especially the cherry one. 

Here we are sitting outside the winery with Jutta and Pat Scarry enjoying some wine!

After that, we went back to the Scarry's place and had a fun evening hanging out and enjoying the view from their back deck/porch. It was a great start to the vacation!