Gma turns 92!

Grandma turned 92 on August 25th and wanted to have a quiet birthday this year.  We decided to give her some birthday experiences.............the year she turned 90 we took her on a train ride in the Royal Gorge.  This year a couple of weeks before her birthday Valerie and I took her to see the Zoppe Italian Family Circus where she was treated like royalty and had a front row seat!

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Click above for the last time we went to see the circus.  The baby is now a little boy and has a big part in the act as a clown dressed like his dad.


Lisa came for the weekend of Gma's birthday and we went to the zoo to see the giraffes.  The Cheyenne Mt. Zoo is great but a little hilly.  The giraffe exhibit is one of the best and close to the entrance.  We also drove thru the zoo and up to the Will Roger's Shrine.  The views were beautiful and the music plays about every 15-30 minutes.

Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun, also known as Will Rogers Shrine, is a commemorative tower and chapel on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is named for Will Rogers, the American humorist, who died in a plane crash in Alaska in 1935 during construction of the shrine. It is also a tomb for the remains of Spencer Penrose – who built many of the city's prominent properties, including the neighboring Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and The Broadmoor resort – and his wife Julie. Completed by Penrose in 1937, the shrine is a 100 feet (30 m), five story observation tower that overlooks The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, and Garden of the Gods.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 for its artistic and architectural qualities^.
 We went out to dinner later, Stan and Bea took her out to dinner later in the week, and she had a birthday massage for the Banks'