Roadtrip; Colorado Springs

Second stop on our trip was Colorado Springs. It was only an hour from Denver so we had pretty much all day to check out the sights

First up was Garden of the Gods


It's pretty much just a free park full of HUGE formations of sandstone


It was pretty awe-inspiring



Precarious





There's Alex for some perspective


Next we hit up Seven Falls. This was slightly disappointing because the stairs leading up to the top of the fall were closed due to ice. However, they have an elevator that goes up to a look-out point, called "The Eagle's Nest". It still gave a great overview of the falls


What was really cool is that the water was rushing behind the frozen falls!



It makes a great sound!


These are the closed stairs



Then it was time to check into The Broadmoor; the only 5 Star hotel in the state and it's been that way for 50 consecutive years

It most definitely lived up to the hype!


Here's a beautiful chandelier in the main lobby


All their chefs put together gingerbread houses. There probably were 30 of them!


They were all centered around this gingerbread mountain that was about 10 feet tall!


They were all so impressive! Enjoy










There were even more but I'll spare you the rest of the pictures.

And below are some pictures of the decor




This is the view after walking through the lobby



And this is the front of the hotel


This hotel had about 13 restaurants. We had our own bell-hop who helped us to our room, turned on our fireplace, and made dinner reservations for us. It was very fancy! It was the type of place that if you needed to rent a suit for dinner, they'd send a tailor up to custom-fit you...same for dresses! It was the best service I've had anywhere! We could only afford to stay one night but it was quite an experience :-) I highly recommend it