Those ice cream cones are the best! Especially right before you go to the arcade! It's so funny you mention wearing shorts up on Pike's Peak. When I first came to Colorado in 1979 (only for a year that time), I lived in Denver and yes, it was 95 degrees (F) on fourth of July. We drove up to Pike's Peak, and yes I was wearing shorts, flips, and tank top. Brrr. We actually had quite a bit of snow still in the shady spots up there, and we had a short snowball fight before getting back in the car to get warm!

This was before there was anything up there, was VERY narrow gravel road for the last half to 3/4 of the drive and there was no parking lot, gift shop or anything else up there, just gravel and rocks. In fact, there was only two other cars up there while we were. What a change now. Still some great views, but all the building and people! Of course the road isn't near as spooky as it was back then.