We took a 1,500 mile tour of the State of Colorado over a 12-day period. During the trip we met up with the Bill & Barbara B. (friends from Rohm & Haas, now living in Kansas) for a couple of days travel together in the Denver area.
Later, we visited relatives in Breckenridge. We also did lots of sightseeing, visited numerous museums and took two train trips.
 For our 37th wedding anniversary, we dined at the Penrose Room on the top floor of the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. With five servers - every one of whom addressed us by name and were properly obsequious.
After cocktails, we had Chateaubriand accompanied by a bottle of Robert Strong Merlot. (We could have had Chateau Latour from 1945, but $5,000 for a bottle of Bordeaux seemed a little excessive.)
The carver was an intense, angry-faced, tuxedoed, older man with a bowl haircut - the spitting image of Moe from the Three Stooges. We kept waiting for him to slap the other waiters around - but Moe stuck to his carving and then disappeared into the kitchen never to be seen again.
We were serenaded by a jazz band (The Ken Miller Trio) with blonde female vocalist, Lila Mori - they had a very good sound. We had great views of the city and the Cheyenne mountains and watched the sun go down as we enjoyed the food and ambiance.
Some photo highlights of our trip:
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