Vacation: Day NUMERO DOS!!

Well, it was a pretty fun-filled day. Josh, Shaleese and Me headed out to Rudy's to meet up with Eli, Kira and Avey(friends from High School and their daughter). We also met up with two of my coworker that were in Colorado Springs. It was a fun lunch. Texas BBQ is AWESOME!!

Sold at Rudy's Country Store. Never seen this before.... White Trash? Must be good!


Me and Eli... Shaleese what are ya doin?? Silly.

The we headed off to Manitou Springs. After driving down some streets we saw this castle, and decided to go check it out. It is the Miramont Castle. It was free for Active Duty Military, so naturally we couldn't let that go by.

Josh, dress up like a firefighter!!

Here is the room with the 14-kt Gold ceiling.

More of the rooms.

This was interesting....

Back to the random room pictures.

Shaleese has dubbed these the "Perfect Prom Stairs"

This is another interesting fact: "The symbol at the top of picture, is not a Nazi Swastika, but the Navajo Symbol for rolling log."

A room with two VERY small beds.

The castle is bolted to the side of the mountain.

As you look out the top of the fourth floor out the front of the castle, pretty high up, however if you turn around the window behind you is ground level - that would be the street.

And of course, how can you go to Manitou Springs and NOT go to the Indian for some natural mineral water.

However no water coming out of the Indian today!! We will just have to walk around town until we find one of the other 7 water wells in town.
Found one!! Go for it Josh!

Shaleese, your turn!! Ha! Classic reaction!

And then finally, the Penny arcade in Manitou Springs. But it more turned out to be a quarter arcade. It was a fun time though. From putting entirely TOO much money in the pinball machine(enough to play 12 games worth), and having a 3-way race, we got a bunch of tickets!!

When turning in the tickets - Ticket Lady(T.L): You have 51 more tickets left. Josh: I think I want to get the same thing as her. Ben: Josh, that costs 55 tickets. Josh: Oh... um... T.L: Do you REALLY want it? Josh: Um..... Yeah. T.L: Haha, here you go! (Juat as a side note... Josh, it was ONLY a sucker)

The youngest brother gets his way AGAIN!!

And then a quick stop at BJ's Velvet Freeze for a nice afternoon snack!