Sunday, August 20, 2006
Home!
We actually got home yesterday evening, but what was left of the day was spent in unloading, greeting Caro and the pets effusively, getting stuff in the wash and all that sort of thing. You might find this hard to believe, but I was tired. :)
The only big adventure of our last day of vacation was going to the suspension bridge over the Royal Gorge. I had only been there once, twenty years ago, and Mike had not been at all, although he has gone UNDER it twice when riding the Royal Gorge train up the canyon.
There is a major tourist-trappish place before you get there, called Buckskin Joe's. We went and rode their small, pricey train, but also got a good deal on a t-shirt for Mike, since they were having an end of the season sale.
It's also a bit expensive ($21 for adults) to get into the grounds of the bridge up above, but once you are there, you get to ride rides and wander around and see it all without extra charges, which is at least handy. We rode a very nice old restored carousel, and another silly train ride, and I took the incline railway down to the bottom of the gorge. (Mike did not care to trust such a strange and rickety looking device.) He DID walk out on the bridge, though, in spite of being afraid of "hikes". (I need to convince him HE is afraid of "heights". It's me who is afraid of "hikes".)
I had kind of planned to hit the ground running today. I do seem to have hit it, or at least hit SOMETHING, but with more of a thud. I've been oddly dizzy off and on. Maybe it's like decompression...or recompression, coming back down to our normal altitude!
The only big adventure of our last day of vacation was going to the suspension bridge over the Royal Gorge. I had only been there once, twenty years ago, and Mike had not been at all, although he has gone UNDER it twice when riding the Royal Gorge train up the canyon.
There is a major tourist-trappish place before you get there, called Buckskin Joe's. We went and rode their small, pricey train, but also got a good deal on a t-shirt for Mike, since they were having an end of the season sale.
It's also a bit expensive ($21 for adults) to get into the grounds of the bridge up above, but once you are there, you get to ride rides and wander around and see it all without extra charges, which is at least handy. We rode a very nice old restored carousel, and another silly train ride, and I took the incline railway down to the bottom of the gorge. (Mike did not care to trust such a strange and rickety looking device.) He DID walk out on the bridge, though, in spite of being afraid of "hikes". (I need to convince him HE is afraid of "heights". It's me who is afraid of "hikes".)
I had kind of planned to hit the ground running today. I do seem to have hit it, or at least hit SOMETHING, but with more of a thud. I've been oddly dizzy off and on. Maybe it's like decompression...or recompression, coming back down to our normal altitude!
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