Hello from CO Springs

Took the family in a road trip and staying the week up here. We came 2 years ago but it was a blizzard and mostly everything was closed down. We did Pikes Peak and the North Pole yesterday and went on a hike this morning. Pretty proud of Colt did 4 miles at altitude, not bad for a 4 year old lol.

Have had some good food and drinks and lots of family time. Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Is that pack comfortable? What do you call that thingie on the top of your wool cap? You going to clean some windows?

Making great memories….well done Sir

If you get by the Biltmore, make sure to say hello to my lil' friend Jo Jo.

Cool.

Lol no pompom on my head sir!




Yes sir, that the plan

Y'all have a great time watch your six AND, Say hello to Dabbing Granny for me

Sure looks like fun. I sure wish we had a 4 year old around to spoil. Youngest grandkid is 18. How did that happen?

Thanks for sharing your pics! Have a great & safe TG holiday!

That is one of my favorite things about living here. There are a ton of beautiful hikes all around the city. Hope you all enjoy your time here! And your boy is a trooper. I've had friends that came to visit and were gassed after an hour hiking at altitude.

If you have some time go check out the national museum of ww2 aviation.

Enjoy the trip & hope y’all have a happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks fellas I don’t know a Jo Jo or Dabbing Granny but if I see them I’ll tell ‘em hi lol.


I love it, my wife and I traveled all around the world before he was born, but it’s much more fun being able to share the experiences with him. We never leave him at home, he always goes everywhere with us.


lots of beautiful sights to see, was going to say the views at our lodge at flying horse are amazing but pretty much everywhere you look it’s amazing. He can do 5-6 miles back in Texas no problem, we’re going to do another one Thursday morning going to try and push him an extra mile in and out so 6 mile round trip. We did Seven Bridges today, going to look online for another good one.


Think we’re planning a trip north to Denver tomorrow, but if we have some time I’ll definitely check it out!

I thought Colorado was getting a ton of snow. Doesn't look too bad there where you are.

Looks like fun. Y’all be careful happy thanksgiving

I was kinda worried because I heard the same. 2 years ago on Thanksgiving week we flew into a freak snow storm and everything was closed down. We basically drove the rented jeep around for a week and did what we could lol.

It’s perfect weather here, mid 50’s during the day and cools off at night real good. Get in the shadow of the mountain though and it’ll drop from 50’s to 20’s real quick lol.

C springs melts pretty quickly after every snow. Biggest snows are also in the spring.

Another place you should check out is Dragon Man's military museum. Largest collection of military weapons, uniforms, vehicles, etc in the country (I believe). Neat place for sure.

Manitou Springs

Enjoy the trip bud!

Have a great time Kyle. Safe travels.

Looks like a great time in a beautiful place, have fun and keep posting pictures!

The Golden Bee at the Broadmoor is a great place for an evening gnosh!

For sure. The piano sing along is fun and everyone is singing the classics as loud as they can. And you can get a yard of beer which is ridiculous, but kinda awesome.

Have fun with the family amigo, safe travels.

Very cool thanks for sharing. Hope you and family have a great time making memories.

Good times. You are a good dad!

Always enjoy visiting Colorado Springs. If you enjoy German food and have not been there you need to try Edelweiss German Restaurant. Also for for some indoor educational fun you might visit the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center.

Nice Kylie, yall have fun brother

Idk what a yard of beer is, but tell me more lol.

Since our steak house at the lodge was booked for Thanksgiving we’ve called around and the was one of the places we called. Literally everywhere is booked so not sure what we’re doing for that lol.

This isn't my pic, just from Google. But the guy helps for scale.

Oh, and Uwe's is the best traditional German food in town. Blows edelweiss away. My grandparents on mom's side are German emigrants and I grew up eating amazing homemade German food. Uwes comes close to the real deal. Don't get BBQ here. It's all trash compared to TX😂

Atta boy, Colt! Making memories!

I have been hammered and nailed after a few yards as a single man......

Was a lot of fun.

Thinking about doing it again.....

It is a trap. You post that and I will make sure you are surprised 20 minutes later lol

Used to be a place down on Greenville that served yards. The Londoner Pub maybe? Had a red phone booth in there. I’ve lost too many brain cells to remember

Now that’s what I’m talking about! If time permits I’ll definitely go grab one, only problem is my wife isn’t allowed to drive my truck so I’m full time DD. Don’t ask she is a terrible driver lol.

I think I could do it in 2 chugs, if I do it, I’ll video it

Let Colt drive

No kidding he’d probably be a better driver than my wife

that second chug is gonna get your hair wet!

Look up Starr Kempfs and drive by the house. Craziest metal sculptures you’ll ever see.

It's the greatest invention ever. Those Germans can't win a world war but they do know their beer.

Great pics, Kyle. Have fun and stay out of the ghey bars.

That guy looks short too....

Broadmoor is an awesome place

Had a pretty decent day in Denver today. Did the City Pass and did the Aquarium, Kids Museum, and the Museum of Nature and Science.

Aquarium was pretty good, Colt loves aquariums. The Kids Museum was an absolute madhouse with kids of all ages running wild, couldn’t leave that place fast enough. Had a pretty good lunch with a few beers. The manager came over and chatted with us and asked us where we were from. He said Denver was nice and really middle of the road and moderately common sense as to where we’re at politics wise. I was thinking you must be smoking too much Denver weed if you think this is middle of the road politically. He then told us he was from California so yea maybe Denver does seem middle of the road compared to Cali.

We then went to the Nature and Science Museum, it was pretty dang nice. Have a lot of great space and nature stuff and even an Egypt exhibit which I’m a sucker for, but boy was I ready to go.

Saw some stuff today that made me shake my head and some that just flat pissed me off.

First up was a lady with 2 kids a little older than Colt. All 3 were masked up and gave us side eyes if we got a little close to her and her kids while looking at the exhibits. Wanted to tell her if you’re that scared to breathe air she should have kept her [censored] at home.

Second was 2 13-15 year olds, one of which was a tranny (male) and the other was a girl, but they were holding hands and hugging all over each other. So I’m guessing the girl is gay and the boy is a tranny being a girl to hook up with the gay girl? can’t keep up with this [censored] anymore.

Third and this one pissed me off, little boy about 2-3 years old could barely walk that well wearing a damn dress. I heard one of the museum workers comment how cute it was… To me that is child abuse end of story. If they keep it up that kid is going to be messed up for life.

I really enjoy COS but I’d be fine never stepping foot back in Denver.

Yeah that’s a mess, Kyle. The good thing is we still get to raise our kids the way we think is best… for now anyway. Try and overlook it as best you can, focus on the mountains, and enjoying the time with your family. The aquarium looks cool and little dude looks like he’s having fun!

Probably reach the pedals better than you too…

Oh yea Colt had a great time which is all that matters. What other people do is none of my business, but feel sorry for the kids with these virtue signaling parents.

Hitting up another hike first thing in the morning and my wife’s best friend from high school which lives in AR now just happens to be coming through CO on their way back from Moab and is going to get a hotel here and meet us tomorrow evening for thanksgiving dinner. Couldn’t have worked out any better.

Lol thanks? Second time you posted that in this thread.

Getting some more healing meds in Colorado?

We went to a dispensary here, there aren’t a lot open to the public most just medical.

We wanted to try a few to compare to our products. We got a vape and some gummies. The gummies tasted like I just ate a joint. Didn’t do anything for me. I’ve hit the vape a couple times, it’s a little better but still meh. Our Delta8 is much more powerful. Had to leave it at home though, because oddly weed is completely legal here yet D8 is illegal here. Go figure.

That was for the second batch of photos.

Living right buddy. That is awesome

Oh gotcha, sorry about that. Thought you were being sarcastic

I edits my post to mix it up, seriously great photos, love it.

Lol you didn’t have to do that sir, but appreciate the comment.

Ain’t that the truth!

Was way too cold to go hiking this morning with a wind chill of 8* but we went driving through the mountains. Had a blast and kind of got lost haha.

Cool

Nice pics

Thanks Stub it was dicey a few times with the ice and those super narrow roads with very very steep drops on both sides.

In Amarillo now eating at Big Texas Steakhouse. Still 5 hours to get home damn I’m beat.

Not bad.... for what it is.

Truck looks good

Does like Big Fun! Safe travels home.

Wasn’t impressed I always order my steak medium because they normally over cook it to medium well which is how I like it. I can’t stand the texture of raw meat makes me want to puke. This was somewhere between rare and medium rare. I choked down 2-3 bites of it and then just ate my sides and one of Colts ribs he didn’t eat. I didn’t send it back like Wade lol.

Got home at 1:30, now gotta get back on the grind.

Looks like yall had a great time

You are supposed to eat the gummies with something fatty, helps with absorption.
You must not have looked close enough because most towns have both med and rec pot sales. Look at a weed map online next time.

Lol I definitely know my way around edibles. These did nothing to me or my 95 pound wife and she took 2 LOL. COS is a little different than a lot of the CO towns. There are only a handful of rec places open to the public. These were from Maggie's Farms which is a pretty big dispensary with several locations. Took one of our D8 gummies when I got home and ate popcorn and watch Ridiculousness and laughed for hours. There was no comparison.

Thanks for sharing all the pictures and stories about the trip. Looks like you had a great time.