Catching up: Trip to Denver

We went to Denver on the last weekend in April, as part of our Great Piano Hunt.

We stayed at Roger and Anne's (Chris's uncle and aunt) house. They live in the southeast part of Denver, and their back yard is on a small lake. On Sunday morning when we were there, Chris and I woke up long before anyone else. We hung out in the living room with a two-story wall of windows facing the lake, talking quietly and watching birds. There were several pelicans, and another bird we couldn't identify. Does anyone know what the dark bird is?





After Roger and Anne got up, we watched the birds some more, sipped coffee and chatted. Eventually Cailan joined us in the living room and played with a Polly Pockets dollhouse - I didn't think he'd be interested in it but he played with it for a long long time. However, there was something else that Cailan was much more interested in:





Roger is a drummer and let Cailan play his electric drum kit. Cailan has had the chance to play one of these a little bit at a music store in GJ, but at Roger's house he was able to drum to his heart's content - over an hour on Saturday evening and another hour on Sunday morning! The headphones were a little too big and kept slipping off his head, and he couldn't reach the controls that let you change the sounds of the drums, but he just kept playing.

In between the drumming and the visiting and the four piano stores, we managed to squeeze in a trip to the Denver Zoo. We didn't have a lot of time, so we just went to Cailan's two favorite exhibits: Tropical Discovery (which has a big aquarium inside) and Bird World. Of course, those are on opposite ends of the zoo, so we got to see lots of other animals walking between them.