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Thursday, May 31, 2012

postheadericon Cheri May-31-12

It was 43 degrees this morning and I wasn’t ready to get out of bed.

Gay was up early this morning.  He had an appointment to take the truck in to check out the problem we are having.  He left by 7:30 a.m.

I kept busy with housework, laundry and baking.  It was 12:30 before Gay returned.  He found out we have major problems with the truck.  They have to order parts and it will be in the shop for 8 days.  We have a leased car to drive in the mean time.

Gay did some grilling for lunch and then we headed for Old Colorado City.  This was the first permanent town in the Pikes Peak region.  Today they are alive with a 100 fine galleries, museums, specialty shops, boutiques and restaurants.

We wandered the streets and came upon the Michael Garman Museum & Gallery.  It was unbelievable.  Michael’s goal was simply to sell affordable, hand-made sculptures to ordinary people.  He eventually bought a dilapidated building in Old Colorado City and set to work to fulfill his lifelong dream—to create a home for his characters called Magic Town.

Magic Town is a 3,000 sq. ft. sculptural theater.  It took Michael over 30 yrs and $1,000,000 to bring to life this vagabond village inspired by his travels.

The city is built at a 1:6th scale, with intricate hotels, bars and restaurants along with hundreds of sculpted characters.  There are holograms, trick lighting effects and magical rooms and alleys that transform right before your eyes.  It was such a neat thing to see.  Our pictures just won’t do it justice.

I wandered (Gay sat outside) through a number of other little shops and then happened upon a QUILT SHOP.  I spent some time browsing in there (Gay again sat outside).  All in all it was a neat little town.

We then made our way over to the Visitors Center at the Garden Of The Gods.  We viewed the movie on how the rock formations in the Garden Of The Gods came to be and then took the driving tour of the Gardens.  We got a few pictures but we did not have the energy to do anymore walking so we will go back and do that tour again while we are here.  We will post the pictures we took of the Gardens when we do that return visit. 

Gay has uploaded a few picture of the day. Click on this link  
https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Old Colorado City.

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