Black Barts Cave

Long-time blog followers of the Stickley fam will know that no extended trip to Denver is complete without a trip to the world famous Casa Bonita. One of Cris' missions in life is to introduce his friends who have never been to Casa Bonita to this crazy place. This time he recruited Melanie (one of his PhD students - who incidentally had been to Casa Bonita *many* years ago!), and Kate (one of the recent master's graduates from UH), along with Kate's husband Ben (the Univ of Hawaii gang is all in Denver for the sports med conference). Anyway, we escorted the poor, unsuspecting souls into the Disneyland of Mexican Restaurants for the classiest meal in Denver. We hope they like a plate of mexican delicacies smothered in processed-cheese-food. oh yes, my friends, that is a fire-juggling-indoor-cliff-diver.

Black Barts Cave. It's scarrrryyyyyy!!!! Juneau and Nova made it all the way through the cave, but they both had to cover their eyes for part of it :)

The *beautiful* Casa Bonita Fountain!

The last picture goes along with a funny story about Juneau. We have to look out for this girl....she keeps us thinking on our toes! Tonight on the way home from Casa Bonita, the girls were getting a little tired/grumpy. Nova was using the "Elmo phone", and Juneau wanted to hold it. Juneau said in a pretty nasty voice "But I WANT that PHONE!", so i told her she wasn't going to be allowed to use the phone tonight because of her bad attitude. After we got home Nova asked her if she wanted to see the phone, and Juneau told Nova that she wasn't allowed. In about 1 minute, Juneau came over and asked me if she could use the phone if she didn't actually touch it, but Nova just held it up to her ear. ahhhh....this girl is always finding a way to push the limits!!! I had to give her props for her creative problem solving, however, and let Nova hold the phone up to her ear one time :)