Saturday, June 26, 2010

Minis

The other day, when Jo and I were in Estes to go hiking in RMNP, we passed a sign advertising the Estes Park Miniature Horse Show at the Estes fairgrounds.  I am completely in love with the idea of miniature anything, but especially miniature horses.  So, of course, we had to come back to see those little minis.  We rushed up after I got off at work and unfortunately the show was over, but we were determined to see some minis, so we walked around the stable area.

We found these two little minis at the hitching rack.  We went over to say hi.


They were so cute!!!  So...miniaturized.

I want one!

This is where those little minis were staying.  They were very accomplished for being so small; check out all the ribbons.

The stalls were built for regular size horses.  I wonder if the minis felt inadequate in such oversized accomadations.  I hope not.

When we were walking back to the car, the two minis we originally made friends with were having bathtime.

And that was our experience with minis.



However, our day was not over.  Not only was Estes hosting the Miniature Horse Show, but the Scandanavian Festival as well.  Since we were already there, we decided to check it out.  The tourists were out in force, so we parked and walked in.  On the way, we found Jo's long lost twin.

Estes works hard to maintain its image for all the tourists who come to visit it, so the flower beds were bursting with color.

We saw this little cutie as we walked to the festival.  I want one!


These were the tourists I mentioned earlier, in case you didn't believe me when I said there were a lot of them in Estes.

Jo took some time to do some window shopping.  I think this picture is so funny because whatever he's looking at is clearly amusing him; look at that big smile on his face.

And finally, we made it!  The dance stage was one of the first things we encountered, so we sat and watched the dancers for a bit.  Don't worry.  That man is not really yelling at that little girl; it's part of the performance.

After watching the dancers, we walked around a little bit but didn't really find anything too exciting.  We were going to eat some Scandanavian food, but didn't feel like eating sourkraut or bratwurst, so we skipped it.  We did find some awfully cute pups we couldn't resist meeting.  They were so cute!



And that was our experience with Scandanavian festivals.
We decided to get some grub at a little restaurant not too far away.  After resisting temptation...

We made it to Ed's.

It's a casual little place that's not too terribly over priced.


We sat on the patio, where we had a nice view of the river.



Jo had the black bean burger and I had the veggie burrito.  I liked Jo's better.
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The last part of our day was dessert.  We wanted to fit in with all the tourists in Estes, so we found a good ice cream shop and Jo got a vanilla malt.  It was delicious.  A sweet end to a good day.


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