Heading to Colorado

Our Adventure to Colorado begins in a few hours.  Matthew slept to about 645am this morning so I am hoping and requesting at daycare that they try to keep him entertained and busy to about 1030 this morning before they let him take a nap. The goal is then he will take a late afternoon nap while we are flying from Richmond to Cleveland or Cleveland to Denver.
He was running a flight fever last night and the runny nose is still there but I am hopeful that we can get to Colorado and since it has been 6 days maybe this cold will run its course so he can enjoy his Aunt Leone, Uncle Moe and Cousins...plus the 5 dogs...I am actually excited to see how he does with the dogs, since Queenie wants nothing to do with him and won't go near him, I am interested to see how he reacts to friendly dogs that lick and will hopefully let him touch them.

So plan is USAFA tomorrow morning to show Lara the visitor center, noon meal formation and some other touristy things...Pikes Peak on Saturday...we are hoping to hike part of it...I think we are late for the hiking season but it is suppose to be a high of 60 on Saturday so was hoping that if we train ride up on the 920am train, and if there is not snow up there yet, we might be able to hike the Barr train down...its 12 miles...the other option is if there is a stop on the train (not sure, one of the websites make is sound like there is a stop midway) we could then maybe hike the last half down...anyone ever done this and have any insights? we are thinking the hike down b/c it will be near the warmest part of the day, it is easier to hike down than up, and it allows us the ability if the weather conditions are crappy to just train down and abandon the hiking adventure...
Sunday is Garden the Gods on the agenda and if we don't get hiking in on Saturday, we will do it here at the park. There appears to be little 1-2 mile hikes to rock formations and the elevation changes are not much so this might be a better bet.
Monday is open....it is suppose to be near a high of 60 again so if we wanted to do something outdoors we could and if we didn't we could just hit the Olympic Training center.

Somewhere in there I was thinking about Seven Falls at night...just depends on how Saturday goes, how Matthew does with his Aunt Leone, if the kids want to come with us, and the weather.

So is there anything else we need or should try to do? Granted we probably only have Monday to do it and we don't want to drive too far out b/c of Matthew and we want to let him go trick or treating to at least a few houses in the neighborhood with Ashley and Ryan

Also going to try and maybe hit a running store Friday afternoon. Anyone need any cold weather gear? I am sure we can find it.
So the blog will go dark for a few days, but will try to get pictures up and a report on how things went by Nov 2nd.
Keep your fingers crossed that Matt's and my cold don't cause us to have horrible flights today...Last thing I want and need is a fussy, screaming baby with clogged and painful ears...