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Last week was a fun, busy week. So much fun and busyness that I didn’t get to blog about it. Here it is complete with the pics…

First, we did some skiing at Winter Park. I don’t have any pictures because doofus here forgot to charge the battery in the camera. And it’s one of those slim, cool cameras that has a rechargeable battery but you can’t substitute AA or AAA batteries.

Winter Park is okay. It’s got a new lift and a couple of new blue runs this year but their overall customer friendliness and helpfulness is pretty low. They don’t help kids get on the lift, the guest services people will help you only if you ask and beg. Copper is much better about those kinds of things.

Next, we hit the Denver Zoo. What is it about zoos that kids love? I love the zoo. Here’s Cooper in his retarded shirt. He wanted a picture with the tiger in the background.

My own sea lions getting their picture taken with the statue. The Zoo has these kinds of statues all over the place - hippos, elephants, bears, birds. They look awesome and kids love climbing all over them…until about 2 in the afternoon. They are solid bronze and heat up pretty good in the sun by then.

This was the coolest experience. There was a little guppy fish in this leopard’s pond. She would haunch and leap and try to catch this fish in the water. Then she look up and walk around to the glass and put her face on it - right where the kids were standing. She did this two or three times but I never could get the picture right.

After the Zoo, it was off to Engine 6 of the Denver Fire Department, located downtown right across the street from the Pepsi Center. We know someone on the engine and it was an awesome experience. (I think the Denver Fire Department has the coolest looking logo.) Blair showed us how to use the firepole and we got to play on the Hamer 1 truck - the downtown HazMat vehicle.

Later in the week we toured The Wildlife Experience. Good - they have an exhibit called Survivor: Jamestown. It’s a maze that you navigate by making choices that the first settlers would have had to make - would you eat this? settle here? work with the Indians? Your answers either added to your life or took it away. Great fun for the fam and took about an hour to work through.

The rest of the museum was a minor let down. To be fair, they are in the middle of a massive construction project. They will double the size of their place by the beginning of this summer. So we’ll give it one more try when the new digs open.

And here I am teaching the Boise State offense in flag football.

And the week ended with Easter. The sign below made me laugh. It was at our church for our Eggstravaganza event. You can take the kid out of middle school but not the middle school out of the kid. Cooper, Camber, Cayden for Easter. I am keeping my promise to never dress my kids in knickers or lederhosen for Easter. And our traditional Bunny Cake.

Whew…what a week.