Arriving in Fort Collins

Dear friends,

For my adventure, I went to visit Alex's Aunt Sheri and Uncle Randy in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Here are some pictures from my trip.  (You can click on them to make them bigger and then close them by clicking on the X in the upper right corner.)

Fort Collins is near Denver and in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.  It's almost a mile above sea level!  The air is much thinner than it is in Kansas.  It takes a few days for most people to get used to it.   Fortunately, it didn't bother me.  That is probably because I'm flat.  The thin air was perfect for my thin lungs.  :-)

Even though it was 85 degrees outside, you could still see lots of snow on Long's Peak.  The mountain looks close, but it is over 30 miles away and is over two and a half miles high!

Horsetooth Reservoir

There are a lot of things to do outside in Fort Collins.  We went to Horsetooth Reservoir.  A reservoir is a man-made lake.  This reservoir was named after a big rock formation that looks like the tooth of a horse.

It takes about an hour to hike up to the top of that rock.  You can even walk on top of it if you're a good climber.  It's very big!

Visiting HP

Uncle Randy took me to where he works.  It's called Hewlett-Packard.  It is also called HP for short. 

They make computers, printers and monitors there.  They've been doing that for a long time, even before iPads and PCs!  

Here is me standing beside a bunch of HP computers from the past.  There were several display cases.  It was kind of like a computer museum.

They built one in a cool yellow box and named it after a sports car called the Corvette.  It must go very fast. 

HP even uses computers to help them build other computers.  These were in a room that was kept very cool so the machines didn't overheat.  Even though there were a lot of computers, we couldn't play games on any of them, so we went to find some other fun things to do.

Rocket Fizz

Rocket Fizz is a soda and candy shop that has more flavors of soda and candy than I have ever seen.

This is me standing by a few of the sodas on the "Soda Wall of Fame."

Here is the whole wall!  They have even more flavors than this!!!

Here is some more candy and some more flavors of soda.  There is also a cooler if you want to drink a cold soda right away.

They have dozens of flavors of taffy as well. 

I like cookies and cookie dough, but I don't know if that would be a very good flavor for a soda.

There are some even stranger flavors like Martian Soda and Martian Poop Soda.  Uncle Randy tried the Martian Soda.  He said that if that was how Martians tasted, then they were safe from getting eaten by wild animals.

Haunted Game Cafe

Next we went to the Haunted Game Cafe.  I didn't see any ghosts here, just lots of games, toy figures and funny shaped dice.

Here are just a few of the games they have.

It was nice being the tall one for a change.

This whole rack is full of dice.  Some of them are regular dice with 6 sides, but there are also dice with 4 sides, 8 sides, 10 sides and even 20 sides.  They come in some really cool colors and some look like crystals!

We didn't know these people, but they heard that we were on an adventure and invited me to have my picture taken in the middle of their game.  They were very nice and waved to say "Hi!" to Alex and Brenna.

Boba Tea and Dogs

It had been a long day, so Uncle Randy took me to one of his favorite places to get a cold drink.  They served something called a Boba Snow, which is like a milkshake or smoothie with pieces of Gummi Bears at the bottom.  You have to use a fat straw to suck them up.  I had never heard of having to chew a drink!

 

Finally, we came back home and relaxed.  I played with Nyssa and Teagan and went on a walk with them.  They are Yorkshire Terriers and are not much taller than me.  They are not puppies anymore but they still had a lot of energy. 

I had a fun time in Fort Collins but I was glad to be going home to Kansas again.  I couldn't wait to see Alex and his family again and tell them about all my adventures.