On day three out here in Colorado Springs, we decided to go to the zoo. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo resides on the side of a mountain and sports a killer view of the Springs as well as quite a few giraffes which are a ton of fun to feed. Where I had planned a morning, we spent an entire day looking at the animal exhibits.
There isn't much to tell there. The animals were all cooperative and we had a lot of fun watching them. Lunch was awesome in the zoo, and actually a ton better than I expected. What was amusing about the food was the alternate names the guy was throwing around for the food. Ladybug got a double decker grilled cheese sandwich, or a "yee-haw". Sassy Pants asked for a burger, which was a good sized Angus burger, or a "Big Boy". I got a footlong hotdog, but I don't remember its code name primarily because I was taken by the names for how it was topped.
He asked if I wanted grilled peppers and onions, which they called "ready to party", but I said no, so he said to make it naked. Then I asked about chili and cheese and he said to make it a "coney island". If anyone out there happens to recall the name for the footlong out there, please reply and remind me.
After going through the zoo, we took the skyride to the zoo's summit overlook and then drove up to the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun. It was then that Rock Girl's fear of heights really came out. We found out about this fear yesterday during our Pike's Peak ride, but it wasn't that bad. Today with a drive up the mountain and sheer drops so close followed by more sheer drops at this shrine, she flipped out a little.
To add to this drama, her eyes were bugging out. We got her some eye drops and tylenol, and as she wasn't up for swimming, we got them to the next door McDonalds to play the rest of the night away.
As a final note, we were curious about how Will Rogers came to have this shrine in Colorado named after him. We asked a guy there what connection he had to the Penrose family who built the shrine (and most of Colorado Springs actually). The guy said there was none really. Rogers died in 1935, and the shrine (which is just a burial place for Mr and Mrs Penrose) was finished in 1936. Mr Penrose just decided to dedicate it to Rogers. Interesting, if not a bit odd.
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