Boulder

We took a tour of Boulder and the Celestial Seasonings plant. We got on a bus with a lot of other statisticians and left Denver around 9am. Along the way, we passed a rest stop, then a lady with a parasol, then a man. We turned to each other and said "geocachers." I turned to look at the man, and sure enough, he was intent on some box in his hands. Rich found that cache later in the week.

Here is some artwork that you might see on a box of tea.


Drinking tea at the tea shop. They make >150 flavors of tea, chai, and coffee. You can taste all of them in the tasting room.


A dress made of tea bags.


This is the sewing machine the Celestial Seasonings guys used to make the muslin bags they sold their first herbal teas in. They sold loose-leaf teas in those bags. No more loose-leaf now, but they are looking into it again, since it's becoming popular again. Their current bags don't have strings and tags so they can save money. Lots of money in strings and tags.


After the tour, we went to the Pearl Street Mall and had lunch. Food porn. Pasta Jay's. Nuff said.


Di tries not to be seen.

Caching!

We stopped for a few caches along the way to our unsuccessful hunt for Pike's Peak. One of them was at a nice lay-by.

Rich is up the hill!


He finds the cache!


Will he make it down again?


Yes! And here's a view of the Platte River from near the cache.

Red Rocks again

That last post was really a test to see if I could blog from flickr. But as far as I can tell, it only allows me to upload one photo, and that's no fun.

This is the amphitheater. It's a little dark, but you might could make out the seats in between the rocks.


The sign says there's a $999 fine for climbing on the rocks.


Really amazingly pretty rocks.






Some mule deer came down the mountain just in time for us to drive by.

Red Rocks

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We've always wanted to visit Red Rocks park and amphitheater, since the Moody Blues played there mumble years ago. When we checked in at our hotel, we decided to find Pike's Peak and ended up here instead. We did make it to Pike National Forest, more on that later. But we spent a lot of time driving around Red Rocks, taking pictures and watching people.

Denver!

Rich and I made it safely to Denver today. They have paper airplanes hanging from the ceiling in the train tunnel between terminals!


Welcome to Denver...


Here is our car, a bright blue PT Cruiser. It's fun to drive. It would be a lot more fun with cruise control. We spent the day driving around Red Rocks and caching. Pictures and details tomorrow.