For a change, there were a number of films that I would be happy to watch - American Sniper, which I started but then fell asleep; Eddie Remayne's interpretation of Stephen Hawkins' early life; Foxcatcher; Birdman; Kingsman; Selma; Still Alice and Unbroken. Hightly unusual to have such a decent selection - some of them films we had wanted to go and see in Australia, but never quite got round to. In the end, all I saw was the first episode of Better Call Saul - the Breaking Bad spin-off.
We were upstairs in Business Class and were amongst the first to get off the plane. They have a new Cusotms procedure at Denver - as well as scanning your passport, you have to do your fingerprints and retina photographs yourself on a machine, as well as answer a few questions. You eventually get a confirmation slip which you take down to the Customs Officers and they simply wave you through. Our luggage was amongst the first off too and before we knew it we were in the arrivals hall and ready to head to our hotel.
There was a storm brewing and it transpired that we were the last plane allowed to land - the rest were all diverted to other airports. The roads were a bit wet - we got a big SUV private limo to take us in - but most of the electrical activity seemed to be in the surrounding mountains.
We have a mini suite at Marriott Town Place Suites and after checking in, we walked to the local brewpub - Lowdown - and had a bite to eat and a few beers before heading to bed at what must have been 5 am in the morning body clock time.
Slept soundly and awoke after what I thought was a good night's sleep only to discover that it was only 2 am local time. Rolled over and eventually went down for breakfast.
We had decided we needed to shake the jetlag out of our systems and walk a fair bit today. A target was City Park where there is a Mile High walk round the park. On the way we were passing the Botanic Gardens and decided to pop in. What a good decision - it's absolutely beautiful, with lots of little nooks and crannies and interesting little walkways and ponds. There's a horse sculpture thing going on as well:
We walked on to City Park and eventually found the Mile High trail:
No - I'm not giving birth. The trail wasn't very well signposted and there was a myriad of other trails and we lost the one we were trying to walk and ended up at the Science Museum. After refreshments there, we mapped the way to downtown - and one of the many brewpubs. Should add that there's plenty of good, free wi-fi everywhere here.
It was a fair walk to the Great Divide and we were ready for beer by the time we got there. It was now 7 hours or so since we left our hotel and the walking mileage was increasing. Jo was still wearing her compression stockings which apparently meant she could only wear a small pair of flatties and her feet were now suffering. Eventually she took her stockings off, and further on, the shoes too and she was now barefoot walking the sidewalks.
We took a short ride down to Larimer Square to have some dinner, and from there we walked back to our hotel along the nice Cherry Creek walkway as dusk began:
It had been a 24kms walk in the heat of the day - surely enough for us to sleep through the day? No such luck - we awoke at 2 am again.
It's now Monday morning and we've just had breakfast and are about to pack. Our SUV limo is picking us up at 9:30 am to take us back to the airport to pick up our hire car and we will then drive to Breckenridge.
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