The Great American Road Trip. Day 7. Denver.

Sunny's in Sunnyside is really good.  I should have taken a picture of the fancy way they cut my avocado like a rose radish, but then you would have seen my side of giant blueberry pancakes.  The pancakes were so much bigger than I expected.  Now that I think about it, maybe the eggs and avo was my side.

We are staying right next to Sloan Lake, the biggest lake in Denver, so we walked around for a bit before seeking out homemade ice cream.

High Point Creamery is located in Denver Central Market, which is basically a fancy, indoor food court.  Apparently these are pretty popular.  It is convenient because there is a variety of food with a common seating area.

Someone is excited!

Still excited...

This girl is going to LOVE ice cream.

We got a flight, five flavors and a homemade sauce of our choice.  Although the ice cream was delicious (especially the brown butter pecan and the brown sugar cinnamon), the hot caramel sauce was insane.

Our one real mission today was to check out the Forney Museum of Transportation.

When you first walk in it is very uninspiring.  You enter through a small gift shop and are sent to look at the matchbox and diecast cars.  But it gets much better.

You get buzzed into a giant warehouse of cars, trains, bikes, motorcycles, planes, helicopters.  If it is involved in transportation, it is there.

This is Eric's new favorite museum.  I don't know that he had an old favorite museum and this replaced it, or if this is his first favorite museum.  Either way.  It is really cool and well worth the $12 entry fee.

This place is unbelievably huge.  It was built by Union Pacific as a packing plant, so they were able to bring in enormous trains on preexisting tracks, which dead end into the building.  It is like a maze, with transportation artifacts everywhere.  We spent over two hours in here and I am certain we didn't see everything.

This electric motorcycle goes zero to 60 in less than one second.

How they figured that out is a mystery.  How could you even hold on if you are accelerating that fast?

Eric was counting pistons and pointing out special shaft drives on bikes.

And I was like, ' a bike with four seats!'

 Something for everyone.

This is a foldable bike used by British and Canadian paratroopers in WWII.

They have rotating special exhibits, like 70s cars or Jaguars.  For the next few months it is mint condition 80s cars.  So random.  They won't have the Jaguar exhibit until December, when the Jaguar owners loan them to the museum, when they are not interested in driving them around town.

By the end of the day we were back in Val and Damien's backyard.  

This is our last night in Denver.

Next stop- Nebraska!