Heading West

Today we flew to Denver for a Colorado vacation for a planned three concerts and lots of sightseeing.  After landing and picking up our car we headed to Estes Park over some back roads rather than the main highways due to lots of road construction.  It was neat to drive through these newly developed areas north of Denver.

Unfortunately the weather is not cooperating - it's cool, cloudy, and rainy.  Mary shot this picture as we drove up US-36 to Estes Park. They are working on the road, blasting rock to widen the roadway but fortunately only at night so we did not hit any delays.
Once there we found our hotel and with the time changed headed out for supper.

I found a great restaurant, the Estes Park Brewhouse.  They have a cool feature - when you walk in you can get 4 free beer tasking samples!  It tried 2, including a Blueberry beer!  It was actually quite good so I ordered one when we reached the restaurant.  If you look careful you can see a couple of blueberries floating in the beer.  They had typical brewhouse fare - I had pulled pork and Mary, fish and chips, and we shared a chocolate, brownie sundae for dessert.
Our plans called for us to head to a Brad Fitch concert, at an outdoor amphitheater but it was raining so we decided to skip it. Hopefully this rain gets out of its system tonight so we can enjoy driving through rocky mountain national park tomorrow as we head on to Glenwood Springs.