Day 5

Today I woke up at the crack of dawn. I really wanted to get back to sleep but it was really hard with the light pouring through the window. So I excepted my mom's invitation to an early breakfast. The breakfast at the Quality Inn was delicious there were so many items to choose from. I ended up having a waffle, some yogurt and coco-puffs. Mom talked to the worker at the hotel and found out that at one time the hotel was considered the Ritz of Colorado with movie stars staying at the hotel. The hotel did have five hot tubs, a pool table room, a huge swimming pool and great beds and pillows. It was possibly the best hotel we stayed in yet.

We then packed up the car and headed towards Buckskin Joe's. It is a life size model of the Old West. There were horse-drawn carriages, a sheriff's office, a saloon, a school, a dentist, a doctor, a bank, a mine, gunfights, and a donkey (which mom thought was real until she petted the animal and it moved.) It even had a train ride with a view of the Royal Gorge suspension bridge.

We stayed at Buckskin Joe's for about four hours. We then drove to the suspension bridge. The first thing we did was take a tram across the canyon. It was very windy and kind of shaky but very beautiful. My brother swayed back and forth between gluing his face to the window and hiding his face in mom's shirt.

We finally got off the tram and walked toward the suspension bridge. We first stopped to get a chocolate-chip milkshake. Then we headed across the bridge. The bridge wasn't as scary as had imagined, it was very wide and had railings on each side of it. The bridge had quite a view! When we got off the bridge mom said there was a incline train that she wanted to ride. For all of you who don't know what an incline train is--it is a train that goes down into the gorge. The line for the train was amazingly long by the end of it all of our feet were aching. Although the train was very fun and offered a great view, when we got to the bottom I felt it wasn't worth the wait.

After we were done at the park we drove to the Leadville, CO which took about 2 hours, along the way we stopped at a Safeway and got our on-the-road-dinner. We found a nice hotel in Leadville and I finally took a shower and relaxed after a fun and exhausting day.