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Tuba Christmas and the Festival of Lights Parade
We spent the first Saturday evening in December in downtown Colorado Springs to see the Christmas festivities. First came Tuba Christmas — 115 local tuba players who had just gotten together a couple hours earlier to practice. It’s not really … Continue reading
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Christkindlmarkt
For the past eight or ten years, we’ve gone to downtown Chicago to see, among other things, the Christkindlmarkt in Daley Plaza. We didn’t make it down last year before we moved, so when we learned that Denver had one, … Continue reading
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The Brass Armadillo
We wanted to see the Christmas lights in Denver, which meant we had some time to kill. I found a large antique mall called The Brass Armadillo west of downtown, and it successfully occupied much of our afternoon. It was … Continue reading
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The Butterfly Pavilion
This small building in the Denver suburb of Westminster is a zoo of invertebrates. There are three exhibit rooms inside with cases and tanks filled with octopuses, crabs, spiders, ants, bees, etc. A woman was sitting in the first room … Continue reading
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The Colorado Model Railroad Museum
We visited Greeley for much the same reason we visited Fort Collins — just to say we’d been there. But unlike Fort Collins, which at least had a few attractions, Greeley was pretty dull. We walked up and down main … Continue reading
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