Ten Years...so GRAND.

Our 10th Anniversary marked Jeff's last day of school this year--SPS got out so late!--and we'd already felt as though we'd celebrated in Denver earlier in the  month, but Jeff couldn't let the actual day go by un-celebrated.  He arranged to have Linnea watch our kids overnight while we got a special "soft-opening" rate at the brand new Davenport Grand Hotel downtown.  We felt pretty ritzy staying in the new hotel--and in the lobby we ran into Matt and Heidi who were there for their anniversary as well!  That was so funny!

We ended up eating in the restaurant inside the hotel--the Melting Pot, smelting pot closed too early for us!  But we had a great time walking around downtown and through the gorgeous, modern hotel.

No shots of the couple who've been married a decade, though...we'd met our photo quota for the month. But I have to do a now-and-then photo...

Our honeymoon, June 2005...                    ...our Denver trip, June 2015

Day 4--Rocky Mountain National Park

The mountains were calling us!  Our first glimpses of Rocky Mountain National Park...

And this picture was actually taken at the END of the day--I'm getting ahead of myself...

We didn't get an early enough start to be able to park in the parking lot where our desired hike started from, so we ended up parking along the road at an overview, and then we footed it up to the trailhead 1/4 mile up the road.

We wanted to hike up to THE LOCH.  For obvious reasons.

Alberta Falls.  Met some loyal Sasquatch believers at this point in our hike.

Everyone we met on this hike was wearing hiking boots and was using walking poles.  Our tennis shoes did the job okay!

And when we made it, the trail sign was buried in snow!

The AFTER picture!

And being huge fans of Glacier National Park and its Going-to-the-Sun Road, we had to take the road over the park on the way home.  Round trip, you know...

Pictures don't capture how VAST these mountains were.  And the camera didn't capture HOW HIGH UP we were, or how steep the drop down was...

An amazing overlook right by the highest point of the divide...

And two MOOSE to end our time in the park.  What a great day.  Sunburns and beer and pizza followed.