July 9th- July 10, 2014-Our bike ride-picnic at Chautauqua Park-Picnic at Golden-scenic drive

Wednesday July 9,2014 Boy did this morning's routine change!?!Oh it started out the same, Lennie was out walking but when he came in at 7:15am he said to me,"Get up Wen, we're going for a bike ride!" I guess I had no choice, he didn't fix my flat tire for nothing!?! While I was getting dressed, Len took Otis to potty. I think Otis was confused, he didn't think our quality bed time was over! Actually...neither did I!!!                       So......here we go!

Cherry Creek State Park has an abundance of bike paths. Those paths are loaded with bicyclist. They don't look like Lennie & me either! They have their fancy bikes, their little biker shorts, & here come Len & myself on our "pedal-power" bikes, the rest of the lot just go zipping past us!!! When we first hit the bike path.....Len TRIED to take me up a hill that my bike, & me, just refused to go up! Quickly we got back on the bike path!

If I don't look happy....I'm not! I think I'm too old to be riding a bike, & my knees agree! Why can't I have a bike with gears!?!

                                                         Some bike scenery

"Come on Wen....catch up!"

I heard rattlesnakes are afraid of bikes!?!

My favorite part of this morning's bike ride was....the ride back to our RV site. It was downhill all the way, made me feel like I had gears after all! The only thing missing now is the little Lycra bike shorts!Otis is happy to see us return & I am happy to see the coffee brewing! After showers we're packing a picnic lunch & heading for the "picnic road" somewhere!

We don't really have a picnic destination in mind, we're just going to drive till we find "something"!?!

& we drove till we wound up in Boulder, Co to Chautauqua Park. We didn't know where we were at,at first, this is no ordinary park! At Chautauqua Park there's a community house, a National Auditorium, cottages,dining hall. We weren't sure we could just haul out our picnic gear & eat here without some kind of official park pass!?!

While we were eating our lunch, we were listening to the music coming from the auditorium. I guess that added some class to our lunch!?!

Otis on the other hand, was mad or something & refused to eat his lunch. I guess he showed us!?!

After our lunch we drove around Boulder a little. We saw this outside mall, called Pearl Street Mall. It looked like a cool place to walk around!Parking....well parking was a challenge. We finally found a parking garage that had 29 spots available, got our parking ticket & drove around & around. Floor to floor! Where are these 29 spots??? On the top floor (roof top) we found 1 spot & squeezed into it, walked down 5 flights of stairs out onto the street & on the way to the mall. That's when Lennie read: NO PETS ON THE MALL!!!! Arrrrrrrrr There was no sense paying for parking when we couldn't walk around. Back to the parking garage, where I told Len that Otis & I were NOT walking back up to the roof!                                      Thank goodness for the elevator!

Before heading back to the RV, we decided to take a quick ride down Colfax Street in Denver. We wanted to check out what we might see on our "day in Denver without Otis"!?!

Capital building

Yogurt!

Well....we can still enjoy yogurt with Otis!

Don't ask!!!! We saw this jeep parked as we drove through City Park. All I can say is.....Someones had too many Happy Meals!?!

   That's enough excitement for today, let's go home, tomorrow will bring yet another adventure!?!

Thursday July 10, 2014 Every night I tell Lennie I'm going to walk with him in the morning & every morning he "slips" out the RV without waking me! Even Otis comes quietly back to bed with me while Lennie is out walking.Again this morning Lennie & I go ride our bikes, I hear my knees screaming at me,they're saying,"Are you CRAZY or what!?!" Once again I can't wait for the return trip back to the RV, down hill all the way....WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!Back at the RV, Len let's Otis out to greet me!

Otis is NOT fooling me, he's not happy to see me, he wants breakfast! We all have breakfast, cause we have another picnic to pack for! With everything done.....we head out!

Double checking just to make sure we know where we're going!?!

First stop, RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER!

This is the all natural rock amphitheater, where anyone who is anybody, has either played here, or wants to play here. Although we have never seen a concert here, last year we did see the movie, The Blues Brothers, on their movie night!Otis would not enjoy a movie or a concert here. He just doesn't realize how great this place is!?! All Otis is interested in is....Where's the next picnic going to be!?!

& here we are at a city park in Golden, Colo.

once again Otis is pouting & refuses to eat his lunch!?

        It's a nice park!

even if Otis didn't enjoy it.....

we did!!!

Okay Otis....if you didn't enjoy our lunch break, maybe you'll enjoy some scenic driving!?! We're going to leave the town of Golden

                                           & head to the scenic mountains views!!

Climb in the back Otis.....here we go!

We better head home, spaghetti is on the dinner menu for tonight!

See you tomorrow!