Mamma's Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys

Eric’s brother Jesse and his girlfriend Lorina came to visit us this past weekend. It’s been over 5 years since Jesse was in CO, and Lorina had never been, so when they asked if they could stay with us, we were happy to have them. It’s always fun when people come to visit, you get to play tourist in your own state. They got in Friday afternoon, really too late to do anything, so we took them to southlands, and looked at the skating rink and hi0t up a couple stores. It was then home for dinner and marbles. Jesse and Lorina fell right into the game, like they’d been playing their whole lives. Jesse won then Lorina then Eric (I very rarely win at marbles). Saturday morning Bria came over and watched the boys for us while we took our guests to the Royal Gorge. We set out early in the morning and headed to Cannon city. Unfortunately Lorina got altitude sickness just into Colorado springs, so we stopped for lunch and got some cool pictures of the air force base & mountains. Our drive was easy going to the gorge, although none of us could remember how to get there, we’ve all been there before but, as kids. Lorina was in awe, having never been here, she was amazed with the mountains and the gorge. We went on the gondola, which was a bad idea for me, unfortunately I was so scared, I didn’t take any pictures while we were in the gondola. Eric was able to get some pictures while we took the incline railway. We of course walked on the bride, and took some more pictures. On our way back from the gorge we stopped at The Winery at Holy Cross Abbey. We saw it on our way in, and decided it would be cool to see. We ended up doing a small wine tasting and taking some delicious wine home. We then headed home, our plan was to stop at the cheesecake factory, but typical to Colorado weather, once we hit the divide, we were met with a blizzard. What would have normally taken 1 hr, took us almost 3. So instead we went to the California Pizza kitchen. Sunday we took them along with the boys to the museum, we were lucky to catch the last weekend of the “Sue” exhibit with the moving dinosaurs. We went to Rodizzio’s for lunch, which is a Brazilian restaurant which offers over a dozen rotisserie grilled meats, perfectly seasoned and carved tableside by Brazilian Gauchos. Authentic Brazilian appetizers, salads, homemade desserts. We were all happily stuffed by the time we left, Aragorn the most I think. He had a blast telling the waiter what he wanted, and using the tongs to grab what they cut for him. After lunch we headed to the aquarium. We’ve been a couple time before, but the boys were never that interested. Sunday was great though there was broncos game and we went later in the evening, so we were some of the very few people there. We got up close and personal views of all the animals, and we even got to feed the sting rays, which was a first for all of us. The boys got to stay up late Sunday night to get more time with uncle Jesse, whom the boys have really grown to like (Rohan wore his Jayhawks jersey for 4 days, so he could be like uncle Jesse). We had a great visit, and we look forward to them coming back with kids next time!