Denver – The Mile High City

The train yard is pretty much what we have come to expect, dirty and dusty and is quite big. There is a play park not far from the train which was good as we where here for a couple of weeks instead of the usual one and a supermarket, sorry a King Soopermarket which is obviously better as it is sooper not super. Actually it wasn't bad, maybe even sooper. There is a light rail station very close by so that means you can escape and go else where to explore Denver and it isn't that far to walk to Downdown Denver which is really nice. The main shopping area Downtown was 16th Street Mall. They had to call it a name with Mall in it so people understood that's where the shops are. They also had a free bus service that ran the length of the street, we never used this though as it was only a mile from one end to the other.

We found a book store at the bottom of 16th Street Mall with a great name 'Tattered Cover Book Store' and even though it was nice there were no second hand books which I think are really required for a shop with a name such as this. Even just small section would be good.

We hung out at the civic centre park at the top of 16th Street Mall for a while which seemed to be swarming with squirrels, I think they must get fed by people quite a bit as they all seemed pretty tame.




There were a few things close to the park, The State Capitol which was modelled after the US Capitol in Washington, The Colorado History Museum and the a pretty big library, all of which are free.





On one of the dark days we went out to celebrate the Boss Clowns birthday early, and went to Casa Bonita. What a place! Seriously if you are ever in Denver you must go here, it really is an experience that I can't do justice in a blog or with pictures. It was so tacky it was wonderful and there really is no hint of sarcasm there. It boasts strolling musicians, daring cliff dives (though the most daring of the night was not preformed by one of their cast), exciting gunfights, hilarious puppet shows (hilarious for all the wrong reasons) and dancing monkeys in costume. Though the latter one I think was printed wrong as we only saw someone in a monkey costume. Oh and not forgetting the haunted caves.



There was a rather chilly Punch party to say goodbye to one of the sound guys. Well it seemed cold at the start of the night. It seemed to warm up by the end though, funny how that happens.

The building isn't that nice and is old, very old. Apparently the Beatles played there when they first came to the US and it was old even then. So in American standards of old it is ancient and apparently even has a ghost! Once upon a time there must have been rodeos here as they still have the old stalls for the horses out the back. Before it was an arena it must have been an aircraft hanger. There wasn't much around it either, a McDonald's, a gas station and a small Mexican market.

And we had snow!