Day Three - Wednesday

So Denver is our new favorite city! It is so awesome! It is absolutely beautiful and there is so much to do!

Today we went to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. They had a nifty Benjamin Franklin exhibit which was really interesting. It's really amazing what he did in his life, I don't think we have people like that these days, kind of sad really. We also got to see some Egyptian mummies and some dinosaurs. Today we realized how incredibly STUPID evolution sounds. There was a video at the beginning of the exhibit that tried to tell us that life developed from a pile of sludge. It was ridiculous! Creation makes so much more sense compared to some of these evolutionary explanations for things. It is really sad that people, educated people, spend so much time and money trying to convince themselves that evolution is fact just so they can deny the existence of God. However, I can see how dinosaurs could puzzle a Christian. First of all, how did they fit on the ark? Secondly, what happened to them? And what was the earth like back then, was it one continent? Were there animals outside of the garden of Eden? It was thought provoking. Katie's newest plan is to become a certified paleontologist at their little training center so that she can say that creation was how life began. We also visited their Native American culture exhibit.

After stopping in the museum's cafe we headed out to a Latin American history museum...which turned out to be more of an art gallery. Their current exhibit was something about making art of the saints and the Madonna and something about feminism. It was kind of cool, there were a lot of beautiful carvings. There was also a video of a girl shaking her head back and forth...it was "hmmm" inducing overall...

Then it was off to the capitol building! We didn't go on a tour but just walked around and took some pictures. It was kind of funny, I guess they couldn't decide exactly where one mile above sea level was so there are not one, not two, but three possible places on their steps, all of them marked. The building is really pretty. It has a gold dome which was pretty cool. And of course, off in the distance were the mountains.

After a brief break back at our hotel we went downtown and walked up and down 16th street. They have all these cute shops and restaurants with buses running up and down the center of the street. It was really fun, we just dinked around in some of the shops, bought a tee shirt or two and then ended up at a brewery for dinner. Overall, we both think that Denver is totally awesome and living here would be a blast.

Tomorrow we are going to drive, and drive, and drive. It won't be much fun but seeing the grand canyon will be so worth it. So, Lost is on and I'm off!

Quote of the day: "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." Benjamin Franklin.

Fun Morman fact of the day: They own the largest cattle operation in the U.S. and it is in Orlando, Florida.

Questions to ponder:
What is the deal with dinosaurs?
Why does Denver have such a large Hispanic population?
How can people believe that we just all of sudden became such complex beings out of nothing?