May 27, 2014 (36th Day)

Up at 6:30. Blue sky greeted us and the temp was 60˚

Jeanette (JP) fixed breakfast. We spent most of the morning chatting and looking at college yearbooks and pictures. Phil joined in for a bit before leaving for work.

Erwin helping with the breakfast

JP and Phil

Even though our stay was very short it was great to see JP again. JP, thank you for allowing us to spend time with you.  We hope that our paths cross again soon.

Always hard to say good bye to family and friends. We left JP's at 9 am,  got on I-25 to Arvada, CO to visit EH's nephew Kendall and his family. Kendall is the son of Erwin's older sister, Elaine.

On way we could see snow capped Pikes Peak clearly.  Really beautiful!

We traveled 4,000 miles from home when we were approaching Denver, CO.

We went by Denver Broncos football stadium.

Denver skyline finally appeared for a short time while we were still on I-25.

Arrived Kendall Beery's house. He showed us his workshop, he is very a very talented cabinetmaker. He showed us some of his works and there was a wall scone he made by cutting and gluing wood together over and over in different patterns! He gave us a matching set. Thank you Kendall! I will post a picture in comments.

We all went out to Silvi's Pizza for lunch in Arvada historic town. 

Erwin and his nephew Kendall after lunch

Went back to the house then we left for Elaine (McHowell) Navratil's apt. Met her husband Rod. We knew her during college days.  We bumped into her and Rod when we visited the Villages a couple years ago when I was invited to give a presentation on using coupons.  She mentioned about thinking of moving back to CO from WA, so when we were making plans to visit Denver we thought of her and contacted her to make arrangements to get together for a visit.

This sign was on the wall near Elaine's front door. Hmmm, makes me
wonder if she has gone out before with misadjusted dress?

Chatted for 3 hours before we went out to 3 Margaritas for supper. It was very good. No, we did not have 3 Margaritas!

Best Buy store was not far from the restaurant, so after supper we asked Elaine and Rod to take us there because Edith needed to add more data for her Mifi, but the store did not have what she needed. Rod suggested to go check Verizon which we did and they added data. 

Back to the Navratils' apartment, chatted a bit more before we bid them good-bye
On way back to Kendall's house there was this nice sunset, so we pulled over and admired it for a while.

 At Kendall's house we parked our camper van on the driveway. We were really tired, but went in the house to chat for a bit because Kendall had to work late shift and we wanted to spend more time with him.