Thursday, April 19, 2019 FIRST FULL DAY IN COLORADO.................YIPPEE!!!!!!!

Christa and I took Riley and Oliver for a walk.  There was a beautiful view of the Flatirons.  When we returned, Nik was preparing breakfast: toast, eggs and bacon.  While eating, we decided to go to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. I suggested to Christa that we take snack foods and drinks but she decided to pack sandwiches.  We finally started out around noon.

We enjoyed the Visitors Center as well as the wildlife drive.  We saw muledeer,

bison

and prairie dogs.

Then we drove to a nearby park and had lunch.

Then we headed to Roggen, a ghost town in Weld County that I saw on ghosttowns.com      It is really a semi ghost town.  We went inside an abandoned motel

and saw this abandoned gas station.

Christa seemed to be having a particularly good time and wanted to go to more ghost towns.  We looked at our info and decided that the others in Weld County were too far away and it was pretty late in the afternoon, so we decided to head back to Westminster.   

I took a nap and then watched DESIGNATED SURVIVOR.  Christa prepared a delicious dinner of chicken with peppers and onions, corn on the cob and garlic bread.      We made reservations to take a tour of the Stanley Hotel tomorrow!!!!