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Our internet got shut off! Won't be posting until late next week. =(

Denver Zoo, pictures by Pat

Pat took these SICK pictures at our awesome day at the Denver Zoo. Man, I want to live in this place. Anyways, he posted all of his pictures on his blog but here's a lil preview to motivate you to clicky click over there.







Now do this: click

Day 2: Breckenridge // Red Rocks

Well okay, I understand now why people love Colorado so much. We drove up to Breckenridge, which is about an hour and a half outside of Denver. The town is the cutest place I've ever been, and it's right in the middle of the mountains so the views are insane. We took a chair lift up to the top of a peak and although it was SERIOUSLY TERRIFYING it was definitely worth it. I took over 200 pictures but I'm only posting a few... once I get home, I'm going to purchase my Flickr account so I can post the rest into a set, then I'll post a link. Until then, enjoy these!

The architecture in this town looks like a story book.






"Excuse me can I take a picture of your dog?" "Uh.. ok"




Then we went up the mountain.










Mmmmmmmm. Then we went to Red Rocks, which is INSANELY BEAUTIFUL ALSO, to see this great Beatles tribute band called "1964: A Tribute". It was so great, except we had to walk up about a million stairs to get to our seats. But again, worth it.


The end!

The Farthest West I've Ever Been, feat. Denver

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that at age 20 I haven't left the eastern standard time zone. But now I have! I'm in Denver for the weekend visiting my brother. I haven't been blown away by it yet, as I often hear that people are, but it is a beautiful city. I haven't been exploring too much yet though, so we'll see if my opinion changes. So far we have just been relaxing, Thursday was a full and tiresome day of travel that involved waking up at 5:35am, which is ungodly and cruel.


We made it to our house!


This is the cute little place where we are staying. It is in the Highlands I guess, which is about a mile outside of the actual city part of Denver.

This is the street


Lots of cute little Southwesterny houses








This is the pup that lives next door

Then we went to eat dinner on the roof of my brother's apartment building. He has an insanely beautiful view.




There's my bro

There was also this insanely beautiful cloud that kept expanding through the night. It started out like this:

And at the end of the night, it looked like this:

AWESOME.

The sun set, and we enjoyed our dinner.







The world is beautiful. We're going to the mountains today, and I'm so excited. My camera is all charged up and I am ready to see some beautiful nature.

a slight instance of bravery / confidence

partly cloudy at sunset

unedited... the world is beautiful.

Homage

This is my paternal grandfather's grand piano. He was a jazz pianist and a teacher. He died when I was 11 or 12. You can see his memorial poster that they displayed at either Syracuse Jazz Fest or the SAMMY Awards, I can't remember which.