Spring Break Trip 2010 -Saturday, March 20

It was a beautiful morning in Colorado.  We decided to visit Colorado National Monument which is just on the outskirts of town. 

We drove the Rim Rock drive which had fabulous views for many miles.  We searched in vain for the Bighorns that are supposed to be in the park.

Jack found a caterpillar at the visitor center

Balanced Rock

We stopped to make sandwiches before the freeway starts to climb into the mountains.  It was a spectacular day to drive I-70 through Colorado...the blue sky and the fresh snow on the mountains made a stunning vista for many miles. 

Driving through Denver called for Rubberneckers, our favorite car travel game.  One card requires you to wave your foot at someone and get them to wave or acknowledge you. 

We decided to try and make it as far as Kearney, NE tonight.  We stopped for dinner at Whiskey Creek Steakhouse in North Platte (it was a Whiskey Creek Steakhouse in Nebraska last summer where Jack misunderstood that peanut bars were where you threw peanuts at other people in the restaurant, not the floor - and started whipping them around the restaurant), where we've stopped before, and finally reached Kearney at 10 pm.