Our friends from Pelican Pointe in Florida, George & Pauline Newman, flew into Denver to spend a week with us. They had never been to Colorado and we had told them we could show it to them. We started the week out with a tour of Coors Brewing Company in Golden. This is always a great tour because it’s interesting, you get free beer and it’s free. A great combination!
Then we went to downtown Denver and started with a tour of the Molly Brown home. Did you know that Molly Brown was never actually called “Molly”? Her real name was Margaret. Molly was made up for the movie, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and they’ve continued to use it. After all, who would want to visit the Margaret Brown house? Downtown also includes Coors Field, home of the Rockies and the big blue bear (don’t know the meaning of it). Of course, Denver is also the capitol of Colorado and has a beautiful capitol building.
A trip to Denver wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Red Rocks Park on the western outskirts of town and it’s famous Red Rocks Amphitheater. The views are fantastic and the park is also beautiful. It’s just a very neat spot. We ended the day with dinner at Casa Bonita. This is a Mexican themed restaurant that features caves and cliff divers. It turned out to be (I think) our only mistake on the whole trip because it is more geared to kids than adults, the food was horrible and our table was claustrophobic. George & Pauline forgave us and we moved on.
