On Sunday, Joe and I headed south from our campground in Loveland to Denver. We drove downtown and walked around on the 16^th Street Pedestrian Mall for awhile. As the name implies, the street (1¼ miles long) is for pedestrian traffic only, but we did witness an attempt by a car to traverse down one lane of the street. Let’s just say there was yelling (and cursing) back and forth between the driver and some pedestrians and it was not pretty. We thought for a moment that the Pedestrian Mall might turn into the Pedestrian Brawl.

As we browsed through some of the shops on the Pedestrian Mall, it became clear that the people of Colorado enjoy making comparisons of the legalization of marijuana to the Rocky Mountain euphoria, using a play on the word “high” on many t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, etc. I’d share some of them with you but many of them were not suitable for a family friendly blog.

Around noon we headed over to Coors Field for the baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first thing we did was to go up to the third level, as we were told that was the only place in the park to get some views of the mountains. 

After taking a few pictures, we grabbed something to eat and then went to our seats. Well, the heat wave is continuing, and the temps this afternoon were hovering around 100 or 101. The Pirates beat the Rockies, but we got beat by the sun. We forgot how intense the sun is at this altitude, and after a couple of hours in the blazing sun, we decided to call it quits.

We had reservations for dinner at 4:30 at a restaurant in Denver. So when we left the stadium early, we had to find something to do until then. We decided to take a drive out to Littleton to check out the house we lived in over 30 years ago. The drive to Littleton (although it seems that that area is now called Centennial) was about a half hour. It turns out that the house we used to live in is currently for sale. We looked it up on Zillow, and we would not even be close to being able to afford what it is selling for now. 

We also drove around some other places we were familiar with in the area, including the office building we used to work in, which was about 10 minutes from where we lived. Some of the people we worked with called it the Gillette Razor building, not because Gillette owned the building or owned the naming rights to it, but because they thought it looked like a giant electric razor. Check out the pic below and see what you think.

 

This is one of our favorite views in Littleton. It is the view of the Rocky Mountains from street level on Arapahoe Drive, and while it is beautiful, it was even more majestic when we saw it from our electric razor office building – Joe from the ninth floor, Kay from the twelfth floor.

 

After checking out our old neighborhood in Littleton, we returned to Denver, to the Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant. This is the oldest, continuously operated restaurant in Colorado, dating back to the 1800s. It is known for its wild game. Some of the menu items included Buffalo, Elk, Quail, Duck, Alligator, Lamb, Rattlesnake, and yes, even beef. Joe tried the Buffalo prime rib, but I stuck with the tried and true beef pot roast. We enjoyed a very good meal as everything was delicious.