I probably never would have gone to a hockey game but I was extremely bored with nothing else to do and my friend had called me to see if I’d like to go so I did and it was. . . awesome. Hockey on TV is a snooze fest most of the times so I didn’t think it would be that great in person but I was wrong.

The sounds of players getting checked against the wall in the arena and the hockey puck being slapped around just sounded so awesome and who doesn’t like to see the possibility of a hockey fight, which almost happened. In hockey you can’t just get the puck stand there for a bit and then pass the puck, if you do that you are going to get checked so hockey is just action packed from the start. I didn’t know much of anything about the rules but I still had a blast and I’d highly suggest anyone try going to a hockey game at least once.

A friend of mine, Jarrett Franklin that was with me on the trip told me about this panoramic iPhone called Pano that he had heard good things about and I checked it out and sure enough it was pretty nice. Here are some panromaic shots I created with the Pano app for the iPhone.

Pano – iTunes app Store
Pano by Debacle Software

This is Franklin’s first time to Colorado and his first time to be in the Rocky Moutains. What better people to show a newcomer around in Colorado then a couple of guys that have been vacationing here since we were little ones.

I’ve already taken a few pictures here and there so be sure to watch the link below because I will be updating my photos page with shots from the trip over the next few days.

Colorado 09 Photos

In the picture you can see she made her character look somewhat like her.

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Arrived at the Hotel, swank.

View from the hotel room.

This guy in the “What would you do for…” event had to get his head shaved for a chance to win a corvette.

Corvette that is going to be given away.

When we arrived the parking lot was already pretty full and we were welcomed by a 66-foot tall soda pop in the entrance. Walking in the place you see thousands of different types of soda pop lining the windows that are illuminated by the inside lights and sun reflecting on the bottles. Pops has 500 plus different types of soda and 43 varieties of root beer and 50 flavors of cream soda. Being a fan of both root beer and cream soda I was in heaven, even more so when I found out they had Bawls.

Pops also has a restaurant inside that we had a bite to eat at and the food was pretty good. I’d like to go back and try their burgers sometime though because they say their shakes and burgers are there second signature after their first, which is the 500 plus different types and flavors of pop. It was a good time and a must see sight so if you haven’t been I would definitely recommend hitting it up sometime.

Here is a link to the rest of my photos from Pops.

Videos:

Arriving at Pops from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

Pops soda selection. from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.

After we made it there we walked around the arts festival and had to smell all the good food but if we had tried to eat anything I’m sure it would have been bad news. After we walked around for a bit we hit up Java Daves to sit down and have a drink. We checked out the seen a little more admiring the art then we headed back home. Edmond is very hilly and there were a couple big climbs that wore us out but it was a lot of fun.

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