We started the morning off by doing a little shopping at the outlet malls in Silverthorne. From there, we drove into Denver. We found a place to park in their LODO district (Lower Downtown.)
It was lunchtime, we were hungry and wanted to grab a quick bite. Up the street from our garage was Chipotle and Noodles & Company. Both are yummy, but I have only been to Noodles once before, so I opted for some Japanese rice noodles. We ate as we gazed over some downtown maps and plotted our city adventures.
16th street is a pedestrian mall and the only allowed traffic is the free bus. We walked the whole distance because at the end was the Civic mall, the public library, and the new Art Museum. We checked all of them out.
I got lost in a Virgin Megastore while Vernal found a place to get a haircut. Two albums later we met up and walked across the river to the REI store. (Recreation Equipment International.) We each got some new shoes and picked up little backpacks for the boys. We were looking for normal solid color kid backpacks that were not plastered with kid things like Dora the Explorer or Thomas or Spiderman, etc. Oh, but first, we took time to relax a bit and sip an iced coffee at the in-house Starbucks.
Oh yeah, I thought it would be ironic to eat something form Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory on this trip. I made that dream come true with a chocolate covered rice crispy treat.
Back in LODO, we found this really cool bookstore called the Tattered Cover Book Store. We probably spent and hour or so browsing around. It was as big as a B&N and was in a really old building where the wood floors felt worn from all the traffic. It had two floors and in the upper floor there was a special assembly room where people were gathered as a featured author was giving a talk. I should have gotten another coffee and sat at their cafe soaking up the atmosphere.
It was getting late now and we were getting hungry. We found a Mexican restaurant (D'Corozan) a block away that claimed it was the best Mexican food in LODO. It was pretty good and not to expensive.
3 comments:
I think I would have enjoyed the Tattered Book.
It is fun shopping at stores that you don't have around home. Sounds like an awesome day!
Yeah, Dust, the Tattered Book was very much your style. Lots of nooks and crannys with worn sofas for being lazy. I was alone searching around and I finally found Vernal reading a magazine at a table.
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