Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Colorado Springs - Focus on the Family and Pikes Peak

It was a wonderful day Tuesday at Focus on the Family and Pikes Peak. We had an impromptu visit with the Keeler's at Whit's End Soda Shop! We met for "wodfamchocsod's" (world famous chocolate sodas.) Focus on the Family was a long awaited treat for our Adventure in Odyssey listeners. It was great fun spending time with the Keelers and as they headed East, we headed to Pikes Peak.

Pikes Peak was an adventure! We took the Cog Railroad all the way to the top - 14,110 feet! Christiana recaps the adventure with this, " It was fun but when you got to the top it was freezing and you were dizzy and had a headache! It was also a fun adventure because you got to see animals and fun sights." It was 30 degrees cooler at the top, and very thin oxygen. Don met a family who hiked 11 hours to the top with their golden retriever Tucker.


Getting ready to ride the three story slide at Wooton Bassett's Tree House
Meeting up with the Keelers was a great treat!

Meet Emily our scooper at Whit's End!

Godspeed to Gaithersburg Keelers!


The view of the Rockies from Focus on the Family


Waiting for the train


View on our way up!


Atop Pikes Peak




It's chilly up here!





6 comments:

Incognito said...
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Unknown said...

Hey Glabs!
It's been fun to keep up with you guys on your road trip so far. I told Dave all about it and he was jealous that he didn't see any of the pictures, so I sent your page to him. =)
love you!
Michelle

Peggy said...

so did the headaches go away when you came back down the mountain? I always wondered about that. How funny you met the Keelers there. Who else are you meeting on the way? This is so fun.

aNDREW tVARD said...

looks like you guys are havis a pretty sweet time. (yes i actually looked at the bolg!!! yeah points for me!!!!)

Unknown said...

hey i hope you guys are having fun on ur huge trip lol. i looked at sum of the pictures so it looks like ur having fun. have a safe rest of ur trip!!

LindC said...

that was very wise of you to take the train! we drove up and it took forever. aw i miss you all!!!