Golden Colorado: Coors, downtown Golden and Rockies Baseball!

Golden sure has grown since our last visit nearly 35 years ago! The Coors plant tour has changed too, self audio tour had nothing on the old "executive tour" we shared with Rick and Jo years ago. One of the guides stationed throughout for questions had no real knowledge of the old copper taste testing bar. But the (3) 10 ounce samples were cold and tasty!

I especially enjoyed walking along the shops and riverwalk. There are large cast metal sculptures of life in the area. Some depicting large trout swimming along the rive, a mother bear and her 2 playful cubs, deer, butterflies and the like. As well as a group of musicians just outside a hotel/restaurant that looked like it was about to host a wedding party! All along the main drive there were metal figures of Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Flyfishermen. At the intersection of the main drive and the road leading to the Coors plant is 'ol Adolf Coors himself.

Here is a gold prospector holding a large nugget!

And a friendly macaw also visiting and taking a break on the walkway. It was apparent that some of the walkway has been repaired from the flooding last fall. This is our son Paul, an avid hunter/fisherman.

We ended the day at Coors Field back in Denver, and saw an impressive Rocky's/Mets game which came down to the wire! The Rockies were behind 3 and 0 in the first, In the third the Mets scored an additional 3 runs, in the 5th the Rockies came back with 8, thanks to a grand slam by Arenado. The Mets tied it up in the 6th. Rockies went ahead by 1 run in the 7th. Mets tied up again in the 8th, and went ahead top of the 9th. But at the bottom of the 9th, the Rockies had 1 on base and then scored the winning HR for a final Rockies 11 over Mets 10.

What a game!