Day 4: Colorado to Omaha
10:55am: Visited Garden of the Gods, a natural park with notable rock formations and wildlife (which we did not see during our short stay) located in Colorado Springs. Took a short tour on a shuttle bus. Saw people rock climbing... Seems so fun! Too bad I don't have upper body strength.
Attempted to visit Cave of the Winds, but left soon after arriving due to the extremely long wait we'd have to face because of the throngs of people already there.
Continued on to Denver where we struggled to find parking while continually running into the "Taste of Colorado" fair/festival which had blocked off several major streets in downtown Denver. The main goal was to visit the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art and then get food at one of those places my dad saw recommended by Rachel Ray. Well we finally found parking and made it to the museum, which actually turned out to be quite nice. It was relatively small (in the former studio of "Colorado's Pre-eminent Artist" Vance Kirkland, but we expected it to be like one room or something that would take like 10 minutes to see. It wound up being very interesting, filled with 20th century designer furniture and products (tableware, telephones, household appliances) of the Art Noveau, Bauhaus, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco styles, along with other modern paintings and prints. Awesome designer chairs! My mom kept telling me she wanted to sit in them.
After that we realized we had no time to eat any place in Denver as we had to take off on the 7 hr drive to Omaha, NE.
After driving all night on what seemed like the most monotonous highway in existence (especially in pitch darkness), we arrived at our hotel in Omaha after 1am. Dead tired is what I was.
But before we got to the hotel, we fueled up at this random gas station that had a sign that said "YOU ARE NOWHERE."
Attempted to visit Cave of the Winds, but left soon after arriving due to the extremely long wait we'd have to face because of the throngs of people already there.
Continued on to Denver where we struggled to find parking while continually running into the "Taste of Colorado" fair/festival which had blocked off several major streets in downtown Denver. The main goal was to visit the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art and then get food at one of those places my dad saw recommended by Rachel Ray. Well we finally found parking and made it to the museum, which actually turned out to be quite nice. It was relatively small (in the former studio of "Colorado's Pre-eminent Artist" Vance Kirkland, but we expected it to be like one room or something that would take like 10 minutes to see. It wound up being very interesting, filled with 20th century designer furniture and products (tableware, telephones, household appliances) of the Art Noveau, Bauhaus, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco styles, along with other modern paintings and prints. Awesome designer chairs! My mom kept telling me she wanted to sit in them.
After that we realized we had no time to eat any place in Denver as we had to take off on the 7 hr drive to Omaha, NE.
After driving all night on what seemed like the most monotonous highway in existence (especially in pitch darkness), we arrived at our hotel in Omaha after 1am. Dead tired is what I was.
But before we got to the hotel, we fueled up at this random gas station that had a sign that said "YOU ARE NOWHERE."
posted by Christy | Sunday, September 03, 2006
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