08/14/17 - Day 133 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks & Rockies Baseball

Quick Update - Took my friends out to Red Rocks for a little hike in the early afternoon and took in  a Colorado Rockies game in the evening. This was my fourth trip out to the amphitheater, but it was the first time my out-of-town friends had seen it.  We caught it on a clear sunny day.


We did find my first rattlesnake sighting of the trip.


That evening we watched the Rockies take on the Atlanta Braves in downtown Denver.  Their baseball stadium is looks nice and the backdrop is pretty good as well.


A large portion of right field stands have been turned into a party zone with multilevel bars and even a cabana club located inside the stadium for the folks who feel like driving to the stadium in order to to sit on the couch and watch the game on TV.








The Rockies ended up winning with a late game flurry of runs thereby bringing the baseball record for home teams in games I've attended to 2 and 3 (BOS and COL won; NYM, NYY, CHI all lost)


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