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I know all about dark roads....out where I live we don't have street lights and many of the roads don't even have lines on them either. When people from the "city" come out at night ot our place the yare always amazed.
Your scenery really changed...but it still is so beautiful.
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Friday 16 September – part two: “does it have meat in it?”, “no just chicken”
Soon we were approaching Vail Pass, the highest point of our trip so far, coming in at over 11,000 feet high.
We were then descending towards Denver and there was me thinking that this was a city at the height – literally. I’d always read about how far from sea level it was, so the last thing I expected was to find neighbouring areas much higher.
As we left the Interstate, you could see the city sprawled out around us and we started to get glimpses of the city skyline in front of us...
We drove through a very colourful neighbourhood, which struck me as either Spanish or Mexican, judging by the food places and names we saw.
Soon we were heading towards our destination. I was aiming for the Civic Center Park, which is home to the Colorado State Capital building.
We managed to find some parking for an hour on a meter, which worked fine for us and set off to explore. The Capitol building is beautiful and it wasn’t long before we started to draw some parallels with Washington DC, albeit on a much smaller scale.
However, there was a more pressing need first, to find some restrooms after our lengthy journey! We set off in a direction, which we thought might lead to hotels or restaurants, getting some photos on the way and finding the Denver Post office – a very impressive building.
Soon we saw the magical golden arches and headed inside, to find that you could only use the restrooms if the attendant let you in. We saw why later on, as a group of schoolgirls came in and tried to use it. Well, that’s OK – we needed lunch anyway. I got a Caesar salad, although there was a classic exchange beforehand.
Me: “Does the Caesar salad have meat in it?”
Girl at the counter: “No, just chicken”
Me: “Do you have any salads without meat in?”
Girl at the counter: “We have them with chicken in”
Me: “So none without meat then?”
Guy at the counter, stepping in: “Would you like a salad without meat? We can do that for you.”
Hurrah! Got there in the end.... Mark had a Big Mac meal and I tried out one of their new pineapple mango smoothies and an ice cream. The smoothie was very nice, although it took me ages to drink it, as it was giving me brain freeze, it was so cold.
Next: posing from nearly extinct animals in the UK!
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I've only been to Denver once, for a job interview, and I didn't get a chance to see very much during that trip. It's a beautiful city! I guess you've had several days to acclimate to the elevation...I know that when I flew from LA to Denver, I had a whopping headache for most of the first day due to the altitude!
The girl at the McD's...it makes me sad for the state of education in America. It was funny...but still sad (to me, at least!).
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I just found this and I know it is from several months ago but I am facinated by all the pics of the parks. I don't have time to read more right now and I want to be able to find you again.
I love that drive back into the city, when you come over that hill.... or in reverse when you see those mountains for the first time! I don't think there's many other cities with an approach quite like it.
Chicken isn't meat, is it? Sad, very sad.
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I've only been to Denver once, for a job interview, and I didn't get a chance to see very much during that trip. It's a beautiful city! I guess you've had several days to acclimate to the elevation...I know that when I flew from LA to Denver, I had a whopping headache for most of the first day due to the altitude!
The girl at the McD's...it makes me sad for the state of education in America. It was funny...but still sad (to me, at least!).
I guess we must've done. I must admit I was worried about the elevations, as I'd heard similar stories from other people, but that didn't affect us at all during the trip - apart from Mark's asthma to a small extent.
As for the girl in McDonald's, sadly I think that's true - and just as true here. Mark went into KFC earlier in the week and said there was a girl in there who had a translator with her to deal with the customers.
I just found this and I know it is from several months ago but I am facinated by all the pics of the parks. I don't have time to read more right now and I want to be able to find you again.
Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy it... ironically I started the trip report a couple of days after we returned in September, but there was so much to the trip - there are other installments about Disneyland, Vancouver, our Alaskan cruise and Seattle - that it's taken this long to get to this point.
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Got there in the end.... Mark had a Big Mac meal and I tried out one of their new pineapple mango smoothies and an ice cream. The smoothie was very nice, although it took me ages to drink it, as it was giving me brain freeze, it was so cold. 
Interesting McD's conversation! 
It was funny...but still sad (to me, at least!).
Hope you enjoy it... ironically I started the trip report a couple of days after we returned in September, but there was so much to the trip - there are other installments about Disneyland, Vancouver, our Alaskan cruise and Seattle - that it's taken this long to get to this point. 
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