Travel to Denver and day around downtown!

Yesterday we arrived in Denver and noticed a lot of smoke unfortunately.  It is coming from the large fires in California and makes the air smokey and the view of the mountains fade and basically impossible to see.   We did a bit of exploring today, having lunch at City Park where we heard cicadas for the first time as part of this trip.  We then headed to Little Man Ice Cream and waited in the line for some very yummy ice cream, even though it was very warm out!  After we had our ice cream we went on a pedestrian bridge over the freeway (see the white structure in this photo).

We then continued and went on a bridge over the river and saw an amusement park in the distance.  

And Olivier was desperate to go in the water and we caved.  This shows the bridge over the creek that we were on.  

And a bit about the area.  

We were all hot and not enjoying the smokey air but it was an enjoyable day!