Road Trip: Day 4

Today we spent the day running around Colorado Springs. First thing, we got up and baaarrely made it to the Pike's Peak Cog Railway station. If you fiddle around on their site, you will find coupons!! Which we had! Which means we had to get there at 8 a.m.! I think we were the last ones on the train. I jumped out of the car and Warren went to find a place to park, while I ran over and secured us tickets at like 7:58...thank goodness it wasn't full! Below is a slide show of some of the things we saw while riding up the cog...which I would highly recommend by the way...MUCH more informational and it will save your brakes.

Ok so...we went from sea level to 14,100 ft. We definitely noticed! While neither of us got silly enough for an EMT; we did fortify ourselves as soon as we got there with some cocoa and doughnuts. OMG! The best doughnuts EVER! Mmmm...it has something to do with the altitude I think. Go sometime if you haven't...just for the doughnuts. :-)

Then once we rode back down the mountain, we were starving and promptly found some mexican food. Lol. And called and rescheduled another night at our campground, only this time Warren needed a cabin...because by the time our next activity would end it would be too late to leave town...so we headed off to...

...a trail ride through Garden of the Gods!! I was able to talk Warren into a 2 hr ride. Yes! I was so excited because of course 1 hr is just not long enough...you barely get up on the horse long enough to get anywhere! and hey, I'm liking this whole slide show thingy! yea! more pictures!

This was Warren's first time on a horse. heh. But he did really well, his horse even stumbled once and our trail ride captain told him he had a nice recovery. (In other words, good job not falling off!ha). He said he had fun and would do it again! yay!

After all that, we were tired and went and crashed in our cabin. KOA even had pizza delivery!! On a golf cart! ha! We finished the movie we watched part of the night before and promptly fell asleep.