On our last full day in Colorado we headed to Estes Park to meet up with one of Brianne's friends for lunch and then headed into Rocky Mountain National Park to drive Trail Ridge Road. This road is the highest continuous paved road in North America and tops out at 12,183 feet. As we began the drive up we quickly realized that Colorado doesn't care one bit about safety as there are very few guardrails along the road and there's just a few inches between you and almost certain death. Needless to say it was somewhat of a terrifying drive up to the top. After many stops along the way for photo ops and to play with snow we finally got to the top and spent some time climbing around on the rocks. The views were amazing the whole way up and it must be even better when there's more snow on the mountains.
Driving down Trail Ridge Road was much easier than driving up for some reason. I didn't feel like I was going to drive us off a cliff the whole time so it was a much more pleasant (and much quicker) journey. Once we got back to Denver we had dinner with Bethany and just relaxed for the night. Brianne and Bethany both like True Blood so we had to watch that. I have always assumed that True Blood is the dumbest show ever and now I am absolutely certain of that. It's really, really awful. We tried to get to bed early (and failed) because we had a long drive to Salt Lake City the following day.
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