Day 4 - 5 Monument Colorado

We left beautiful Santa Fe at 9am on Wednesday morning - heading for Monument, Colorado (just outside Colorado Springs).  Our good friends live there and we spent 2 days with them.  There home is located not far from the Air Force Acadamy (where they held graduation on the day we arrived).  The Thunderbirds (an elite Air Force group) who flew over the area in celebration of the graduation. We just missed this - which is probably a blessing because we ran into virtually no traffic as we drove into town.

We went out to dinner that evening and then came home and talked up a storm for hours on end....reminding us all of the old days when we did the same thing - it's amazing how you can be away from friends like this for so many years and then just pick up where we all left off so many years ago, just like it was yesterday.

On Thursday we slept in, visited somemore, went out to lunch at Golden Coral, and then went to the North Pole.  What fun we had visiting all the cute little shops and feeling like it was Christmas in May.  If your ever in the Colorado Springs area and you haven't been to the North Pole you  should give it a try.  Seniors get FREE admitance...so you can't beat that!