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After our lunch we walked over to 13th and Ford to get in line for the Coor's tour...
First they take you on a bus around the town and drive you by neat buildings like the Armory, the oldest cobblestone building in North America. They also pointed out the mountain where Buffalo Bill's grave sits.
On the way back towards the factory, we noticed lots of little shops and fun places that we want to try sometime in the future, but there was beer to be had!
Firstly, I'll say the tour was OK. You are given a handheld audio tour device and you walk around on the tour path to hear about where you are. It's neat to see copper kettles the size of a small reddish barn scattered about the place, but I'd love it if the people standing around staring at you would walk with you, too. Kinda awkward...
Halfway through the tour you get to try fresh beer off the production line. I felt the silver lining of not conceiving last month and even non-beer-drinking me had a cup! It was really good and I've never had beer that fresh before. After some more touring and seeing how the bottles and cans are made/packaged we went to the post-tour drinking salon. They give you 3 free beers of your choice before you leave, and we used almost all of our freebies. I discovered a beer that I actually like: Blue Moon Belgian White, and Shawn discovered some beers he'd never heard of before like Coor's Banquet. We drank slowly, leisurely and until the place shut down. Afterwards we took a stroll back to the truck and met a man from England who lived in Dubai. He was halfway through driving across the USA; he'd always wanted to do that. We meet the neatest people when we go places... he wasn't the last that day!
After Golden, we hit up Boulder just to walk around. We walked up "the Hill" and saw some shops. It started to rain as it got later and we decided to head back just in time for it to start pouring! We headed back to Denver and hit up a restaurant where I couldn't have eaten ANYTHING if I were pregnant: TAG | RAW BAR.
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We went back to the hotel to put the mohawk back up and to change clothes. We set out on the 2.5 mile walk with RTD Bus passes in hand, ready for a night at... Church.
Imagine a church converted into a night club. Stained glass windows surrounding you and throngs of others as you dance until you're sweaty where there used to be pews in the congregation area.
See Day 1 here!!!
3 comments:
I've always wanted to visit Denver...have fun! xoxo
I love Denver. I used to live in Wyoming for two years and I remember having so much fun driving down to Denver all the time. xo
Sounds like another awesome day! I love Blue Moon!
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