Denver (Friday, April 7th, 2017)

We flew from Phoenix Sky Harbor airport to Denver last night. Our plane was scheduled to leave Sky Harbor at 10:15 pm, but we had a minor delay.  We had two pilots and a plane, but no flight crew, so we had to wait for them to show up.  They finally made it and we boarded our plane, only to see that their seemed to be another problem.  We weren't sure what it was, but we waited patiently. They had already closed the tarmac door, but to our surprise, they reopened it and pretty soon the ground crew was on the plane. They had come on to escort one of the passengers back off the plane.  He had been very loud in the airport, and apparently his behavior continued onto the plane, although we couldn't hear it. Live entertainment on a plane is always fun.

We finally arrived in Denver at about 2:30 a.m. and checked into the Holiday Inn by the Airport.  Even though we got to our hotel really late, we still got a really nice king suite because of our platinum membership.  We had a great nights sleep.  The hotel was really nice and quiet.  It is so worthwhile to pick a hotel chain and stick with them when ever possible.  The points really add up fast!

They are putting in a new light rail system by our old house, and have been working on it for several years now.  They discontinued the bus service to the airport in anticipation of the new light rail, but so far, the light rail still hasn't happened.  Apparently, there is an issue with the crossing gates that won't allow them to put the tracks into operation. 

When we sold our house, we were counting on having some sort of mass transit from the airport to Arvada, but with no buses and no train, it has left us in a bit of a bind.  So this morning at about 10:30, Steve's parents picked us up at our hotel and took us back to their house.  We were sorry to have to inconvenience them.

We planned on spending one day at Steve's parents house before heading to Fort Collins to visit our youngest daughter, and to our delight, when we called her, she said she had all of her homework and projects done, and wanted to come down and spend time with all of us in Denver.

Since we left, we've made our youngest daughter drive our old car instead of her's, because it is a little bit more reliable.  So when she got to Denver and saw her car, she was so happy!  

We all took a walk in the park to enjoy the beautiful weather Denver was having, and for Steve and I it was a real treat to see all of the green!!!

The trees are starting to bud out in the city, but there is still some snow on the mountains.  They are beautiful!

The park we walked in is in a subdivision called Lake Arbor.  They have fitness equipment throughout the park, and of course, our daughter had to use most of it.

Pull ups

It was such a fun day spending time with everyone!  Steve's mom had planned a nice lasagna dinner for us, and since our youngest can't eat lasagna, she just brought some of her own food when she came down.  Steve's brother and our sister-in-law joined us.  It was a fabulous evening!

The next morning, before we left Denver, we had some shopping to do.  Our youngest daughter has an internship this summer, and we had to get her enough clothes for 10 weeks.  She's usually a picky shopper, but somehow, we managed to get her lots of clothes in one shopping trip.  Amazing and fun!