Keri picked Bonnie and me up at the airport bright and early. We needed to pick up our race packets but the expo wasn't open. Keri had a plan. We headed to the capital building. See the top of the building in gold. We took the trek up there!
This is one of those "had to be there" situations. It was so beautiful inside and built a long time ago. The architecture was amazing and to think that the people that built it didn't have what we have to use to build buildings. The round structures were all over. They were part of the heating system. More to come on that.
This is a picture of the inside of the gold dome from the ground floor.
Lots of murals on the walls depicting different times in the history of Colorado.
A tapestry. As you can see it is very large and it depicts some of the important women in the history of Colorado.
Here is a view from the large round structures looking to the grates on the floor. The heat from below the grate would rise up through the big holes in each level and heat the building.
This horse, Scout, was a gift to the governor. I believe this is the governors office.
So much artwork.
I am trying to remember what each of the rooms are. I do believe this is one that used to be in use but is no longer used for government functions.
This chandelier weighs 2,000 pounds and is cleaned once a year.
This is the House. This chandelier is 1,700 pounds. Amazing but true.
The Senate also with a huge chandelier!
Portraits of all of the presidents of the United States reside in this area!
Getting closer to traveling up into the dome!
To get to the dome we had to climb 91 stairs. The stairs wound up to the top of the building and we had to walk single file to climb them. I thought about taking a picture once and I decided holding the handrails was a better choice. The view from the top!
Keri, Jackie, Bonnie!
The top of the dome was still pretty far away. This was as close as we got.
There was a museum in this area too.
And we found John Denver!! Nice!
The seal of Colorado was on each and every door knob in the capital building!
And here we are! One mile above sea level. We were trying to get a picture and a class on a field trip wanted to be a mile high too. They kindly moved to the side for our picture.
Packet pick-up time.
Bonnie spotted this booth! We both investigated it. We were told the purpose of the marijuana was not to get high but for only medicinal purposes. OK!
Another gimmick. Lay on these pads and all will be healed!
Let the games begin! We got back to Keri's and the competition started. First darts. Easton and I were a team. We did not win!
Bonnie and Ryland did a lot better! Keri played on a team of her own!
Lots of creepy stuff around their house! Dead guys.
Ping pong next! That was fun for sure. It had been a long time since I had batted a ping pong ball.
Celebrating a point!
More creepy things! The Doolittles know how to do Halloween!
One more game. It is called 10,000! It is a dice game and I don't remember the rules but it was fun!
The game face! Time to call it a night. Tomorrow brings a family race day!
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