The Colorado Adventure

I’m doing the happy dance! I found a dim sum place. That serves dim sum from a cart and they have more than one cart and they gave me my xu mai and it was good!! I can’t wait to go back (it’s King’s land seafood on 2200 Alameda before Federal.)

Hanna was sick last night, but I guess it was the Mcd’s food ‘cuz she’s better today. So, after lunch we went to the Capitol for the dome tour. If you haven’t been, go before next June. They are working on the balcony right now so you can’t go out there, but after June 2008 they will close the whole dome down for 18 months. Then when it re-opens you will be able to go out on the balcony again.

Here is the outside; they are flying the Rockies flag…..go Rockies.

Here is a statue to honor Civil war veterans.

There are 99 steps to get to the top of the dome, but after you’ve climbed 350 at Cabrini, it’s a piece of cake! Here is the place called Mr. Brown’s attic where you can look at the infrastructure of the building through windows, see plans for the building, see old pictures of the Capitol being built and see a model of the building made out of food cans (not sure why.)





In the dome there is a spiral staircase that leads up to a small room.

From here (no public access) you can climb a ladder to the top of the dome and another ladder to get to the light at the very top. (I don’t know why they won’t let us climb?!) Here is the inside top of the dome with the star.

Here is a floor below.

Here are the views from the top, you can see 360 degrees.




Here is why they are working on the dome (an inside window frame.)

Here are the kids in front of the stairs, and all of us.


Here is me leaning through the bars looking down (they didn’t say you couldn’t do that.)

It was very fun and educational to see all the old pictures and plans. The reason we haven’t gone before now is because it just reopened in Feb. 2007 and I hadn’t gotten around to it!

Now I’m on my way to a Mom’s night out while Joel baby-sits. Bye!