Early start this AM with a one hour drive to Glenwood Springs that took 1 1/2 hours due to stop to take pictures. Glenwood Canyon has to be one of the most beautiful drive in our beautiful country.
After a couple of false starts, we found the entrance, bought our tickets and were on the tram to the top of the mountain. It's a small amusement park with an alpine slide, 4G movies, Laser Tag and a Giant Swing that defies description. Art and I still don't believe that we rode it - note: Jana and Sally rode multiple times. There are 4 seats (2 on each side, back to back). We had to leave our backpack, camera, glasses, etc. because as the young man running the ride said "if anything gets lost; it stays lost". With great tepidation, we sat down on the side facing the overlook (about 3000 feet off of the ground). The swing then starts (after locking you in your seat) much like a regular swing for one swing then gradually increases both speed and incline until you're swinging a bit more than 180 degrees back and forth at 3 Gs. The whole ride lasts about one minute and you're quite glad of that. I will add pictures while we're on the plane home...quite dramatic. Sally and Jana rode the alpine ride (we didn't). At noon we joined a group to tour the amazing Glenwood caverns...about an hour long in glorious 52 degree temps (the sun gets very strong at high altitude and it was a clear day. Our guide was from Romania, spoke excellent English and was very knowledgeable. Worth the price of admission to the park! We ate lunch, the girls rode the Swing again (immeditately after eating) and we saw 2 short 4 G movies. A quick trip to the gift shop and we were off to experience Glenwood Hot springs - with a mineral pool that is the largest in the world and in operation since the late 1800s (although the springs have been used by Native Americans for thousands of years). We paid the rather steep admission, changed in the available locker rooms and enjoyed both the therapy pool (104 degrees) and the mineral pool (94 degrees) while viewing the nearby mountains. Much more crowded that our last trip here but relaxing and always fun to share the experience with the girls, We then showered, changed and headed back through the canyon taking even more pictures in the late afternoon light. We went straight to the Sushi restaurant that we had planned for this evening (half price and quite good) and went back to our unit for coffee and cherry cheese coffee cake for dessert,
Time to begin packing and too tired to work on pictures tonight. :(
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