We had a very cold and rainy Memorial Day. It was weather better suited for skiing in the mountains (which you can still do on Memorial Day in Colorado) rather than the pool and barbeques. We had not made plans with any friends so we laid around most of that morning trying to figure out what to do. We had heard a lot of great things about The Wildlife Experience, a museum-like attraction right near us. Since it was inside out of the rain we decided to check it out.I don't want to be insulting, but let's just say... we were a little underwhelmed. It is a beautiful building. Probably took a LOT of money to build it, but there wasn't a whole lot inside. Basically two rooms of dead stuffed animals.
There was a fun, hands-on room for little kids. I dressed Caleb up as a lion, but as you can see he was less than thrilled about it. They did have a very cool big-screen movie called "Sea Monsters." It was about dinosaurs of the ocean, back when most of the North American plains were under water. Daniel loved it and talked for days about the great white shark that ate the little dinosaur and the alligator dinosaur that ate the great white shark.
We're wondering if we can convince anyone this is a real mountain lion and we encountered it during one of our hikes. No???

Our Memorial Day ended with Patrick spending several hours at the side of a friend in the hospital. Actually, he was their for his friend's wife since they have no family in town and the doctors were running a battery of tests with no real explanation as to why her husband was passing out. Patrick was able to explain things and ask questions for her, which she was very thankful for. And I am thankful to say that our friend left the hospital a few days later with no major problems!