Two Days, Two Hikes, Two Temples

Scott and I recently took a quick trip to Colorado. We haven't taken a trip with just the two of us since we went to Alaska in the summer of 2019 so we decided it was time.

We left early Tuesday morning and flew to Denver. By the time we got our rental car, it was about 11:30. We drove to Fort Collins which is about an hour from Denver and found a little trail near the highway called Arapaho Bend Natural Area. You get some traffic noise there but it was a nice walk and pleasant weather. We walked about 3 miles.

Our main reason to be in Fort Collins was to visit the temple there. It's a newer temple built in 2016 and quite lovely. We had an appointment at 2:45 for an endowment session. It was good to be there.

After the temple we found the restaurant where we were meeting a colleague of Scott's and his wife for dinner. Their names were Jake and Sarah Roberts and we enjoyed getting to know them. Scott knew them but I had never met them. After dinner, we drove to Denver and found the hotel where we were staying.

On Wednesday morning, we had an appointment at the Denver Temple at 9am for an endowment session. The Denver Temple is older, built in 1986. The temple workers were very welcoming and gracious.

It was a colder day and Scott decided he needed a hat to be happy while we were hiking. So we visited Target for a hat and then Sprouts for some food before heading to Roxborough State Park where we went on a hike.

There were some very interesting rock formations at that park that these pictures don't really show very well.

After our hike we headed back to the airport to come home. We loved our time together without the usual outside pressures and enjoyed just being a couple again. We want to do it again sometime soon.

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