Hello Again!
It's day 3 of our great adventure and I couldn't be more excited to share with you all about our day! If you have been following at all, you might know that we stayed with his aunt and uncle in Park City, Utah last night. Well, and if you didn't know.... now you do! Anyway, we loved staying with them. They are such wonderful people. They invited us to go to breakfast this morning before we headed out to our next destination and we thought it would be the perfect way to start the day before the 8.5 hour drive we ahead of us. The breakfast place was really cute and served amazing food. It was called "No Worries Cafe," which we thought was a fitting name for two people about to embark on round 2 of the road trip!
We started our journey this morning at around 9am. We filled up the car with gas that we pumped ourselves ;) and said a prayer since we knew that the day was going to be long. The trip started out really beautiful. When we left, it looked like it was going to rain but it never did which made for some stunning scenery and great pictures. As we continued through Utah we were amazed at the gorgeous rock formations that filled the canyon that we were driving through. The formations changed as we went into Wyoming but were just as beautiful. Honestly, our first impression of Wyoming was always ugly, vast land that stunk. We were presently surprised by how stunning Wyoming was. That is, until we got further into the state and our impressions became very accurate. 
Let me tell you something though; Wyoming is a WEIRD state. As we were driving through we kept noticing these signs for fireworks. We saw the first couple and thought "oh, no big deal. They must be popular in this town." Oh no, they were popular in the ENTIRE state. I swear I saw more firework signs today then I have in my entire lifetime. We happened to pull off to a gas station and we saw a huge sign with an arrow pointing to a tiny fireworks stand to the left and then another one right next to it. RIDICULOUS. 
The second interesting thing about the state is this strange infatuation with this town called "Little America." We saw signs for this town 50 miles from the exit. Their big marketing tool was that they were selling ice cream cones for 50 cents. They probably had a billboard promoting their town every couple miles. It made for a fun 50 miles haha... I mean I can see how it would be a good way to reel travelers in because by the time the exit finally came up, I felt the urge to almost want to stop just to see what all the fuss was about but we decided it wasn't worth stopping for.
The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. We did get to stop at the Wyoming sign at a rest stop that also had a statue of Abraham Lincoln's head mounted on this great brass wall. IT was definitely unexpected but fun to see. We also got to see the Rocky Mountains as we entered Colorado which was awesome. However, the weather was incredibly weird today and seemed like it couldn't decide if it wanted to be sunny or cloudy. Unfortunately, by the time we hit the Rocky Mountains the weather decided that it wanted to be cloudy and so our pictures didn't turn out as well as we had liked but it was still lovely.
weird weather
We were so grateful when we finally saw the great city of Denver! Right as we were entering the city, we saw HUGE bolts of lighting going directly into the city. It was a hot evening so we realized that it was a thunderstorm but thankfully it never rained on us. Teej loved seeing the bolts of lightning flash.
Anyway, there happened to be a baseball game tonight vs. the Mariners (which we didn't go to unfortunately) so by the time we did enter the city it was not only rush hour but the traffic for the game was horrific so it took us a while to get in and park but once we did we were so grateful. The city itself is beautiful. It's very flat and we felt it was very comparable to Portland in its cleanliness and even how it was set up. I think we determined however, that by the end of the day that we liked Portland better just due to the fact that it had water surrounding it and its beautiful bridges (shout out for you Dad). We walked in an area called the Lower Downtown (LoDo) District as well as Larimer street. They had really cool shops and places to eat. It also gave us the opportunity to see Coors Field up close as well as other great buildings in the area. We ended up eating at a fun little restaurant called "Celtic Cavern." We split (yes, split) an amazing burger. 
After that, we got back in the car and drove over to another area of the city where the United States Mint Building is located as well as the State Capitol, and a few other judicial buildings. That was really awesome because it was just starting to get dark and the city was becoming even more beautiful, which made those building's even more amazing. Teej was blown away at the size of the buildings and ultimately thought Oregon's state capital was pretty weak compared to this. By the end of that, we were pretty tired and ready to head out to our hotel.
Our hotel was about 20 minutes away from downtown. We plugged the address into my phone GPS and it took us to the WRONG PLACE. It took us to someones house so we called the hotel and they gave us directions. Thankfully it was only a few minutes away from the place the GPS originally took us. BUT, as we were driving out to the main street, a coyote with something in its mouth ran across the road in front of us. It FREAKED me out! I was just glad we didn't hit it.
Overall, today was great. We are very glad to be safely settled in our hotel. Our car is doing great by the way. It is such a trooper! Let's pray it continues to do so. Tomorrow we are headed to Red Rocks Park to see the beauty Colorado has to offer. Then we are headed out to Fort Morgan to visit relatives.
Thanks for keeping up with us! We really appreciate and love you all.
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