We headed to the hotel next through the crazy downtown traffic. My kids were amazed by all the people, and all the girls wearing too short dresses, and all the people smoking. Seriously, smoke was everywhere. After checking in, we headed over to the 16th street mall. Misha was not happy now. She does not like loud noises and was not looking forward to the fireworks. Her attitude just went downhill from there. We sugared the girls up at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and then made our way toward the firework staging area. It was up on a roof, so clearly visibly to many people. In fact, we would have had a perfect view in our hotel room.
After the fireworks were over, we made our way back to the hotel room. Misha took her bad mood to bed and the rest of us watched tv and played games until the midnight hour. Kristen almost made it. She was in one of the beds with me playing a word game on my iPad, when she just laid down, rolled over, and fell asleep. At midnight, Chris, Amy, and I watched those fireworks again out our window. Perfect view. We drifted off to sleep to the sounds of people screaming and shouting and making lots of raucous noise in the hall way.