Day 5 - Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak & Anniversary Dinner

 The day started out a little overcast, but we were all fine with that. Sometimes the Garden of the Gods can be a bit stifling if the sun is beating down on you.

So we were happy that the gods favored us with a cool day for roaming in the garden. These wind sculptured rocks took our breaths away from the enormity to the graceful lines. 

The four of us were the unusual group snapping our picture at the entrance of the park. I know people waiting to record a group picture at the entrance thought, "what kind of person brings their own tripod when a selfie stick is around.

We hiked the gardens sipping water between the rocks and even posed with a few unusual sculptures.

When we viewed these two sweethearts from one angle it looked like two chipmonks kissing, but the explanation was, two camels. As we wondered around we could see different scenes rising from the rock formations. Of course our version was funnier than the stuffy ole descriptions that the park named it. We even happed on an alligator kneeling with his hands folded in reverance.

Our small group had a great time renaming the sculptures and wondering around the compound. That is until we came across Dixon & Colleen's name sake's, "The Chuchwagon Circle". It was here we chose to rest a while before moving on.

A nice little rest before making the trek back to our ponies and our next discoveries.

In 1879 Charles Elliott Perkins purchased the property and upon his death his family gave the park to the city of Colorado Springs. The condition that Perkins' family made was that the park remain totally free to the public.

The heat in the valley  was beginning to get the best of us, so we decided to travel on up to Pikes Peak. There the weather sported a cool temperature of 33 degrees, we were happy we brought our jackets. We had the pleasure of meeting a rather braggadicous man who touted that he brought people hunting for a living and he had taken a small group from Louisiana. We learned later in the conversion that those people were actually from up north LA, that didn't count.

It was a busy day, we scrambled to change clothes before making our way to The Broadmoor Resort, where Miles had made reservations for our 42 Anniversary. It was a delicious dinner with terrific friends.

It was a faboulous dinner shared with faboulous friends. Maybe we should go back next year?