Colorado Trip

Sunday, March 30, 2008

We just got back not even two days ago from our Denver, CO trip. It was such an amazing break from the busyness of life back here and a nice way to escape from all the responsibilities and the long "to-do" list for Korea.

We got down there on Tuesday night and ordered pizza when we got to our hotel room. We just stayed in that night. When the pizza came, we had a good laugh because the pizza boxes said nothing about the place we ordered the pizza from, but stated "God Bless America" with a big American flag and on each side it said "Land of the Free" and "Home of the Brave". We had such a good laugh about that one and made many jokes about it over the time that we were there. The pizzas were huge though. We paid $19 for two XL pizzas, garlic sticks and a 2L of "Soda" ie. Pop.



The second day that we were in Denver, it was 21 degrees C. SOOOOO NICE! We left our hotel around 9:30am and did the touristy thing where you walk around and take pictures of random buildings, statues, parks, etc. We walked all the way to the Pepsi Centre and went inside to the store. Then we walked to REI and fell in love with that outdoor store. We then walked to 16th Street Mall, which is 16th st in the city and it has all been closed off as a mall with stores all the way down. No traffic besides a free mall bus. Lots of restaurants, about 5 Starbucks, if not more, and it is about a mile to a mile and a half long. By the time we ate, walked the whole street and walked back to the hotel it was about 2:15pm. We were so tired from walking for so long. We rested and then got ready for the game. We went for dinner at Chili's and then headed back to the Pepsi Centre. The game was amazing. The Avs won 6-3 and our seats were unbelievable!!

The next day we went to the Denver zoo. Another 6 hours of walking that day by the time we got there and back and walked around the zoo. It was amazing, they have over 4000 animals representing over 700 different species in an 80 acre lot!! We saw lions, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, komodo dragons, rhinos, hippos, etc. So many animals and so much fun. I love zoos.

All in all, it was a great trip, but it is so nice to be back in Canada again. You can just feel it when you cross the border. The difference between the atmosphere in the Denver airport and the Calgary or Vancouver airport is indescribable. Much more relaxed.

Good to be home. Back to the Korea stuff though now, we have everything set up for our storage of our furniture, finalized our Shaw account, found someone to take over our cell phone, found packing supplies, arranged our trip to Esterhazy, SK and Winnipeg, MB with Nicole, but we are still just waiting to have our interviews with the consul. We should have them this week. I have to call them on Monday or Tuesday to set up the interview time and then we just have to do that and get him to stamp our passports and we are ready to go. Kyle is working this week and then he is done, so I am just taking it easy and trying to get everything else in order. Our landlord contacted us about breaking our lease and he is perfectly fine with that, but stated that he is extremely sad to lose us as tenants because he has never known better tenants. It was good to hear.

So, enjoy the pictures from the trip... I am off to finish watching the Pittsburgh-New York Rangers game. Ciao!