On this Thursday we took it easy and slept in a bit. When we finally headed out we went towards Fort Collins as I had dropped one of my gloves the day before during skiing and needed to buy a new set. We eventually found a REI and got a good pair for $20 which was really awesome. Afterwards we headed north towards Wyoming and saw a Anheuser-Bush factory on the map so we decided to stop to see if they had tours, and they did! After the tour and the free root beer samples we went to Cheyenne, hit up some craptastic museum, found a decent pizza place and headed back to Estes Park!
In Estes Park we hit up this place for breakfast. We thought it was a small mom+pop place, but later that day we realized it was a chain as there were more of them. Hahaha.
The outside of the Anheuser-Bush factory.
They had a team of clydesdales at the factory. This one is "Darth." I think he's an evil Jedi.
This is the packaging region of the factory. Pretty amazing stuff.
Our tour consisted of Kyde, me, one tour guide (Will) and like 30 7th graders. They stuffed ALL of us into one elevator. You can see our tour guide smiling at hthe camera, he's the guy with the bro-fro. I'm not sure if he was old enough to legally drink or not, but he may have been drunk during the tour. Haha.
Fermentation tanks. Really just stunning how much booze was in this room. There were hundreds of these tanks.
The skys of northern Colorado look HUGE.
Why-oh-why are we in Wyoming?
We met this cow. He was named Clifford P. Hansen, apparently.
NEXT!