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The first touristy experience this weekend was a trip on Saturday afternoon to the Denver Museum…
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…of Nature and Science.
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This fellow greeted visitors entering the museum.
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There are several leprechauns hidden throughout the museum's dioramas. I only found one. Can you see it?
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This photo is a victim of unfortunate composition. Cover your eyes, children.
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I'm not sure any angle makes the composition any better. I think the designers of this diorama had an ulterior motive.
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I'll say this, though—while the backgrounds were obviously painted when viewed in real life, and wildlife visibly fake, in photos, they look a lot more realistic.
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I think this one is one of my favorite.
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Another section of the museum featured dinosaurs. This one had such an enormously long tail, there was nowhere I could stand distant enough to take a complete photo.
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The laboratory where scientists clean and catalog bone fragments.
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Having booked a 5pm flight back in July with an incorrect assumption that there'd be Sunday programming to close out the convention, I was facing nearly a full day of sitting in the hotel and/or airport. Blessfully, a communication colleague had planned a few hours to sightsee in the Rocky Mountain National Forest and invited me to come along. His flight was at 3pm, so I knew that even if he was a smidge late, I'd still be on time.
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An interesting local shop we saw while en route to the town of Estes Park.
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The beginning of the thick fog we drove through before getting high enough above the fog to see mountains in clear skies.
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First snow sighting, albeit at a distance.
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First close-up snow sighting.
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