Good morning from Lexana, Kansas!

Today we have a long day of driving! We stopped for the night just over the border of Missouri in Kansas. We will cross the entire width of Kansas today and a little into Colorado with a final destination of Denver!

We traveled all morning, stopped at a Love’s and made sandwiches in the car! It is much cooler today and a little windy!

Driving takes a lot out of you! Everyone napped a little bit today…except Ry she just closed her eyes for the picture!

Welcome to Colorado!!

We pulled into Denver in the early evening and headed downtown for some sight seeing!

We parked downtown next to Union Station and headed up the 16th street mall to the Capital building! On the way we found a Caribou Coffee and had to stop! Ry and I absolutely love Caribou, iced turtles coming right up!!

Next stop, a mile above sea level in the Mile High City, on the steps of the capital building!

There is a small discrepancy as to where the exact mile is, so we made sure to sit on both steps just in case! 🤣

Next up, let’s tour Denver! By scooter!!!!

We found two to begin with and rode double around town for a bit! Then we found two more and each had our own!

We traveled by the civic center, the Denver coin Mint, union station, the University of Colorado Denver, and the Rockies stadium!

We made sure to find the University of Colorado Denver, this is where my Grandpa John, the girls Great Grandpa attended and graduated with a degree in engineering!

We had so much fun riding all over Denver! As we were exploring we realized that the Colorado Avalanche were playing in the final game of the Stanley cup finals. There began to be a lot of people downtown so we decided to head back to our hotel and grabbed pizza for dinner!!

By the way…the Avalanche won the Stanley cup! 🏒🥅

At our hotel the Rocky Mountains were absolutely beautiful!

Tomorrow we head into the park to see what we can see!!

Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror!