We had a great weekend, and kept ourselves pretty busy. Saturday we met up with the running group for our long run of the week. We ended up on some new running trails that were a nice change of pace. Saturday evening we headed into Denver to celebrate Kristen's mother's birthday.
Sunday involved making tomato sauce from all the Roma tomatoes that the garden had produced. We froze most of it for later use. I also spent a lot of time refining the treehouse platform design, and started a list of all the hardware I was going to need. We cooked stir-fry for dinner, using up a lot more vegetables from the garden. Several naps were taken during the day.
Monday we decided to head out to Chautauqua park to do some hiking. We'd hiked a particular trail about a year ago, and hadn't quite made it to the end. The trail ended at a cave that housed various species of bats. Hoping that we were in better shape than last year, we took off toward the cave around 9:00 am.
After a couple hours of hiking we found the same rock we'd eaten lunch at the year before, and stopped again for PB&J sandwiches. We were still feeling strong, and figured we only had a little farther to go. Kristen was developing blister issues, but decided to push on.
It turned out we had quite a bit further to go, and it was almost all straight up. We got a pretty good work out climbing up the very steep trail. We eventually made it to the cave, which was unfortunately closed until October 1st to protect the bats. The final 30 feet to the cave opening was interesting, as you had to climb up a fairly intimidating rock wall.
We vowed to come back after October 1st to give it another shot. We headed back into town and had some ice cream to celebrate our partial victory.
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