Today we had to drive in to Glenwood Springs for the boys' optometrist appointments. The day went like this:

drive out of parking spot over near bridge by river and park. There's a large animal jumping the fence.
Kyria - Is that a horse?? OH! That's an ELK! Oh, there's MORE! (six or so elk jump the short, wooden fence near the pedestrian path)
*looks toward park*
Kyria - Oh, there's a whole herd! Wow, it's kind of late to be seeing them. (10ish)
We stop the van to let them go across the road. The elk stop hopping the fence. We wait. Elk just watch us. We watch the elk. Neither of us move. We start to move again... Elk still don't move. We conclude that elk have a far superior intellect compared to the typical deer. This same situation could have arisen with the deer but then, when we started to move again, the deer would have watched us until we were in just the right spot and then jumped in front of our car. We like the elk better.

drive past the elk and on to the freeway. Get near to Glenwood Springs.
Mike - *nudges Kyria* hey *dips head in direction of mountain nearest highway*
Kyria - Oh, hey guys... more deer! OH! OH OH! Not deer! BIG HORN SHEEP! SO COOL!!
look across river to the railroad tracks on the other side of the highway. There are the deer walking down the railroad tracks.
Kyria - There are the deer! *points*
Matt - I knew this would be a great day to be out.

drive in to Glenwood, find the eye clinic, take the boys in and start looking for frames and stuff after checking in.
Guy In Eye Clinic - WOW! Look at that eagle!
The kids and me - Wow! NEAT! It's a bald eagle! How cool!

drive home from eye clinic
Kyria - jeez. The elk are still there. That's weird.

So, yeah. It was a good day to be out and about. Oh, and Mike saw ducks. I can't confirm this because I didn't see the ducks... but he was adamant that he saw more animals than the rest of us because of the ducks.