Casa Bonita

Casa Bonita is a Mexican restaurant here in Denver.  People don't go for the food, but rather the experience as you can watch a western type cop and robber play and cave divers.  The restaurant also has a gift shop, arcade, a man dressed up as a gorillla, puppet shows and a tour through a dark cave.  We went to Casa Bonita when we first moved here two years ago but haven't been back since.  The preschool where I work part-time was having their end of school field trip at Casa Bonita, so I took John and he had a wonderful time.  All the kids seemed to enjoy themselves.

John enjoyed watching the show so much I had a hard time getting him to eat his food.

Look how nicely he is sitting there.  I think I need to bring Miss Renee and Miss Charla home with me.

It was a great class trip.  John even took a nice long nap when we got home.

The Grandparents come to visit

This is a rather long post but there were just too many pictures to make it shorter.

My parents arrived on the 26th and we had our family Christmas that evening. Hans and I got a beautiful grill and John got a tricycle, which he is afraid of at the moment. Those, of course, weren't the only things we got, but this post is long enough.

This is all of us at church on Sunday. We haven't all been in the same place since John was a baby.


John would throw a ball down the stairs behind Mark and Mark would have to run down the stairs and get the ball. This was a good work-out for Mark and left him rather winded as the high altitude got to him. John thought it was the best game ever.





I'm not sure how John got this messy, but it must mean he had fun!


Grandpa and John reading Curious George


Watching Thomas...of course


Relaxing and watching some morning toons.


My mom and dad took him to our neighborhood park one day and John had so much fun.


The swing is his favorite part and he likes going in the baby swing so he can swing higher.




My parents sent Hans and I out on a date and took John to the zoo for Zoolights.




One night we went to Casa Bonita. This restaurant is very unique and has cliff divers, puppet shows and cave to walk through and much more.






John actually watched the puppet show.


On our last day together we went to Garden of the Gods and Red Rocks.


At Garden of the Gods John found this stick he wanted to use as a walking stick. As you can see, it is a little big for him.


This stick is much better.






The view from the Red Rocks Amphitheater.








We had a wonderful time and as always the trip seemed too short.