Colorado Springs, CO

[ickaimp]

So yesterday, we drove up from Carlsbad to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

It was a pretty good drive, and we got stopped twice for construction. Which would have been a downer if we hadn't gotten into a debate about the rules of hopscotch and ended up asking the girl holding the stop sign what she remembered the rules as, her being a neutral party.

Nothing like a healthy dose of insanity.

Today we hung out with jheen and went to Manitou Springs, which is a bit of an artsty-town. Had good pizza at 'Marilyn's Pizza', which was decorated by Marilyn Monroe pictures everywhere. And stumbled upon a showing of homoerotic and tastefully done male nudes in the basement of an antiques store. *chuckles* I found *gasp!* some dark jade rings. *drools*
-so hard to find dark jade. *purrrrs* *pets the dark green and black jade* Mati and Wren got some too.

Got to taste some of the natural spring water that gave Manitou Springs it's name. Kinda fizzy.

Then we went to the Garden of the Gods and looked around. And played the crazy Kaitou being chased by Detectives as we jumped from red rock to red rock. (I didn't get caught! Nyah)

Still find it amusing that it was orginally 'Beer Garden of the Gods'. ^_______^

And currently, we're teasing Allie about doing weird things to Gen's dog. Hahahaha.

Tomorrow, we're heading up towards Yellowstone, and I'm going to try to get rid of this stupid minor cold I got from Mati so I don't end up zombie walking again. Blargh.

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[kosaginolegion.livejournal.com]

Wheee! Garden of the Gods! And now I'm trying to remember where the cave was, since the park guide doesn't seem to reference one. *sigh* So many years.

Y'know how they keep the tram on Pikes Peak from hitting too hard if it slides down? It's got two big springs at the bottom... Colorado and Manitou.

...er, sorry... Blame the tram tour guide for that one. Yeah.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

We didn't quite get to the Pike's Peak rail (which does look neat), but that joke... *groan*

The tour guide was probably proud of that one, wasn't he? ^^

[kosaginolegion.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he was. It's one of those things you *have* to share, simply because it's sooooo bad.

I liked driving up Pikes Peak better. Never did get more than a third of the way up by hiking. Kosagi was a wimp and the others wanted to get up waaaayyy too early.

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