Rural to Urban, and Back

Today was a rare Saturday off, so I piled the three youngest in the car to go explore downtown Denver. Going downtown in the big city is a really fun thing for us farm kids. First we stopped at the Brewery/Restaurant founded by our current Governor John Hickenlooper. It is a favorite of mine, because it has a big play space on the second floor. We played shuffleboard and darts, while trying to eat a big plate of nachos. We all found we were better at darts than shuffleboard.

Next we put some more quarters in the meter and walked over to the 16th Street Mall. We rode the Mall Bus for a while, then decided to see if we could go up to the top of one of the tall buildings.
We joined a group of college kids who were going to the 51st floor of a building for a class on community organizing! I kid you not! There was a magnificent view from that height.

When we came back down to street level, lo and behold there was a several block long group of protesters marching in solidarity with the leftists in Wisconsin. It gave me a good opportunity to explain to the kids what was happening. Most of the Denver protesters were unhappy about Planned Parenthood losing the ability to take taxpayer money to kill babies, who have no CHOICE in the matter, but there was also plenty of hatred directed toward Wisconsin Governor Walker for asking union workers there to pay a portion of their healthcare and pensions. Sorry, no photos of the baby-killing narcissists who want your money.

If you judge the popularity of an activity by the most amount of time spent doing it, then riding the escalators clearly was the hit of the day! Going down the up and up the down was the most fun.