So I know I have been remiss in writing about my latest adventures in Denver and I am sorry.  Some weeks it seems that the process of landing back home, unpacking, doing wash, catching up on mail and everything else that needs done post trip before launching back into a week full of sessions and what not gets harder and harder to do!

Denver was amazing though! We started with a half day visit to the Denver Botanical Garden which was one of the most beautiful gardens I have ever been to (and I check out a LOT of botanical gardens.) <grin> I took a bunch of photos of incredibly beautiful flowers, especially orchids that I promise not to bore you with all at once. 🙂

Then we drove 2 hours to get to Rocky Mountain National Park.  And oh wow, I truly loved the Rockies! We took a leisurely drive up to to the top of  one of the peaks which rose to just under a 12,000 foot elevation and stopped every so often to snap photos and try to adjust to the thinner and thinner air. 

I was really damn grateful to be 6 months smoke free let me tell ya! I don’t think I would have made it that far up otherwise!! Whew.. talk about sucking wind! It was like the most intense and totally non consensual breath play scene I have ever been in!

But it sure was beautiful and truly amazing to observe the shifts in the environment as we climbed.  I had never been higher than the tree line before, stood in snow in July or watched an family of elk stroll by on the tundra 20 feet away. The Rocky Mountains were  truly breathtaking to behold on many levels. 😉

We finished the day strolling through the town of Estes Park and shopped the quaint little boutiques, ate an elk burger at a sweet little restaurant and bought some postcards I never had time to mail. We also visited Estes Ark which is a truly cool shop full of every kind of stuffed animal and such that you can imagine. Luckily I did not have a ton of room in my luggage to go home, (thanks to the ever increasing airline restrictions) so I had to settle for buying one little bear, the Snuggle fabric softener bear to be precise.  It is totally adorable and yes, snugly soft. 🙂

I will stop back soon and tell you more about Thunder soon!