Last weekend Adrian and I decided some season fun was in order. I am a sucker for anything Halloweenish. So we went on a haunted Denver bus tour. It was the quirkiest tour EVER. The tour was in a bus that looked like a Hill Billy shack (pitched roof and wood paneling on the sides!), which was appropriate since it was a Banjo Billy Bus Tour. Inside this refurbished school bus had couches, arm chairs, and even a saddle for people to sit on, we sat on an upholstered bench, and the roof was draped with crazy fabric and twinkle lights. Seriously awesome. The tour was all on the bus and as the tour guide drove around he told us funny Denver history tidbits as well as ghost stories. We stopped in front a quite a few different locations like the Molly Brown House, Cheesman Park (which is actually a cemetery), an old fire station, the Brown Palace, and the State Capitol Building and got to hear some fun ghost stories about each place.
It was a very tame tour - none of the stories were very scary - and so neat. I loved hearing about Denver and how wild and western it used to be. And Molly Brown was a seriously amazing woman. Of all the places Cheesman Park was definitely the creepiest. It started out as a cemetery, then they wanted to move all the bodies, but that didn't work out, so they just took all the gravestones down, re-landscaped it, called it a park, and tried to forget it was an actual cemetery. That is weird people. And creepy. My favorite part, here comes the cheese, was spending time with Adrian and feeling like we were on a real thought-out date, rather than our usual dinner and a movie. It's nice to switch things up every now and then. After the tour we had some amazingly good sandwiches. I think my French dip was better than La Madeline's. It was that good. All and all it was tons-o-spooky (and yummy with the sandwiches) fun.
The tour started in front of my favorite Denver Blue Bear (aka
I See What You Mean) outside the Denver Convention Center. Isn't he cute?!
