This week we were camped in Aurora, near Denver. On our first day in Denver, we took the train in. We had a good picnic in the park, and started walking around downtown. As we were walking, Ma saw a sign for a trail that she knew went back to our campground and suggested we take it back. Because it was ONLY thirteen miles, we decided to walk back to the car at the train station. On the way, Pa and I were getting blisters from our shoes, so we took them off and walked barefoot. After a long walk, we were very happy to arrive back at the car!
The next day, we toured the Denver Mint. It was awesome. We got to see the coins being made. We learned about the new National Park quarters and we decided to start collecting them. The coin making was awesome to watch. Tons of coins were pouring out of the coin printer. Did you know that 7.8 billion coins are made each year? Cool!
Later we went to the mile high mark on the Capitol building.
The next day was for chores. Our first Trader Joes in five months led to our stock up shopping trip. Because they have the best dark chocolate, we bought many pounds of it. The cashier actually said “wow you sure like this”!The other thing we stocked up on was marinara sauce. After months of sampling and surviving the brands we didn’t like, we bought almost ten jars of delicious Joes marinara.
After a chill day, we decided to head to Great Sand Dunes national park. We had only recently heard of it from the national park quarters.