Vieve's Place...Enjoy Your Visit
Nothing happened in the haunted house last night. After waking up early, and having an early morning hike into Hanging Falls,
We hit the road. We got some donuts on the way out:
My donut here is: Glazed donut topped with chocolate chip cookies and chocolate. It was crazy good. Luckily our drive home was relatively boring, we just had some weather we had to deal with. But now, I’m home, and Cookie was very jazzed so see me, which was very nice, ha ha! It feels so good to be home!
This morning, we got up and got going to a city called Glenwood Springs. We were stopping there for the evening, and then going home in the morning. For some reason, I really felt like I needed to go home. But we didn’t, we just stayed there. We were staying in a hotel built in 1893, and it considered haunted. It’s called the Hotel Colorado.
It’s really warm in there. They don’t have AC there, so your only way of cooling down is a ceiling fan (just pushing around the hot air) and a room fan (just recirculating the hot air). After walking around the town, which was all closed down because it’s a Sunday, we went back to the room and just hung out. I took pics of everything, though, because it just seems haunted there.
Hopefully nothing happens tonight!
We made our way to Denver today, and after stopping at a place called 4 Mile Farm, so named because it’s 4 miles from the center of Denver. We took a tour of it, and after finishing, stopped at my favorite (only?) Denver cupcake place, Big Fat Cupcake. I got 4 cupcakes, one for me, one for Chelle (gotta bring a treat back!), one for Husband, and 1 for extras. We checked into our hotel, and after doing so, got back into the car to move it into the parking garage. As we got in, PJ threw her purse into the back seat…directly onto my cupcakes, smashing them.
This made me so sad, since mine last year got ruined in the flight home. But I held strong. We went to dinner at a burger place, and they didn’t have individual menus, you had to just look at the wall and choose it.
They gave us a little burger station, so that you could add your own condiments as you see fit. ‘
And then onto the RSL game. We won! 1-0! We also won the Rocky Mountain Cup this year! It was pretty awesome. I didn’t get a pic because I was busy celebrating. But it was awesome! And we finished up by going to a Coldstone, in which they were out of vanilla, mint, chocolate, and strawberry ice creams. That was weird, but I still enjoyed.
So today, I have gotten a start to go to Colorado. I went with PJ and we are doing our yearly jaunt to Denver to watch RSL play. We drove this time instead of flew, to save a little bit of money. This is our sweet rental car.
We got to Parachute tonight, and spent the night here, before finishing on to Denver tomorrow. We stopped at a place called Mama’s Café, and I got a chicken fried chicken.
It was literally the best one I’ve ever had, and then I finished off with desserts. We ordered a peanut butter cheesecake and a peach cobbler, and shared them.
Yum. Can’t wait to see my boys in red play!
After all of our shopping and looking around the incredibly small and boring town of Durango, we had a basketball game that we went to. After arriving, we noticed that there was a guy that kept going out onto the floor, and wiping it, and then going back to his seat. The next chance he got, he was out there again. Over and over.
We finally found out, there was a leak in the ceiling and he had to run out to dry it up. We started to cheer for him, because, duh, and then someone near us made a sign for him. After the game, we went up to him and asked to take a pic with him.
After the game, we were starving, so we found a place called…Michelle’s 24/7! Of course we had to go there. They had some really delicious pizza.
It was so good! After eating our delicious dinner, we made it back to the hotel, and got some sleep. It was a pretty awesome trip, and I’m glad we had so much fun!
This morning, after waking up, Chelle and I went to the gym. When we walked in there, we were surprised to see how lackluster it was.
Yes, all that you are seeing there is 1 exercise bike, 1 elliptical machine, and a weight machine. So, she hopped on the bike, I chose elliptical, and away we went. After our workout, we went for some breakfast.
Isn’t that the most delicious pancake you’ve ever seen? It was. We spent the day walking around downtown Durango, and seeing the entire town and everything we did there took a few hours. It snowed, it rained on us, but it was still a blast.
We went into a billion small stores, and bought some really random things, that even as I was buying them, I thought, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these, but they’re cute, so I got them anyway. We went into a bakery there, and bought cupcakes. 7 dollars is how much that cupcake cost, can you believe it?! I have never paid that much for a single cupcake in my life. I still haven’t even eaten it! Any minute now, everyone. Any minute now.
Stay tuned for part two!
Today, I took a sort of impromptu trip to Colorado. Chelle was going, and I went with her. It was a blast. We left at about 1:00 in the afternoon Friday, and arrived there before 5:00, so we made some pretty good time. The drive there was fun, we listened to a book on tape, The Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites. It was a good book, listening to it made the miles and the time fly. The drive was pretty scenic:
And finally, we made it to the border!
we battled some fog on the way in, but other than that, no real weather mishaps. We watched a basketball game there, and it was fun, of course. A lot of yelling, and cheering, and good times ensued. I had myself a bag of popcorn as a treat, and Chelle had a pickle, and that just made me laugh. It was delicious though, I had a bite of one. We snapped a selfie during the game:
And before we knew it, it was time to head back. We hit the road again, and this time, we had some more fog, that made me nervous a little, but we made it back in one piece, just a little after midnight. It was an awesome trip, and it was just so fun and impromptu to just head to Colorado for a day and come back. Sadly, we didn’t get to finish our book on tape, but hopefully we’ll get to do that soon, because I just want to know how it ends!
I went on a short weekend trip today with PJ, we went on our annual Colorado trip to see RSL play for the Rocky Mountain Cup. We flew in yesterday afternoon, and spent the evening finding a restaurant, and then finding our hotel and getting some rest. This morning, we had a run in a local park, and then we just spent the day visiting local favorite places to go, the park, the cupcake store Big Fat Cupcakes, and then went to a shoe store, I was interested in finding some flip flops, and I found some there. As I was perusing the clearance section, I happened to find a pair of running shoes – my exact running shoes that I get, in my exact size, on clearance. I couldn’t believe my luck! So I snagged them up, and as I was checking out, PJ had a $10 coupon she gave me, so I got my running shoes for half off! Lucky day! After the shopping, we got some dinner at a pizza place, which was so good. Then, off to the game. We got in the car, and looked at the weather, and wouldn’t you know it, there was a tornado warning given. In Denver. Whaaaat? We looked at the sky, and it was BLACK and stormy. We thought it may be a good idea to run back to the hotel and get our jackets. On the way, there was a train passing, and I genuinely could not see the end of it, we sat there forever, getting later and later.
Luckily, we got our jackets, and got to the stadium with minutes to spare. This year, instead of standing in the group of drunken idiots, we bought seats that were the next section over in the front row. It was sprinkling ever so lightly when the game kicked off, and then, 7 minutes into the game, lightning was going on near the field, and they stopped the game. They told us to leave our seats, and go to the safety of the overhangs. We declined, and sat there. And sat there. And sat there, getting rained on. It wasn’t very heavy rain, so we just hung out, but after about 30-40 minutes, it started to POUR and we finally had to admit defeat, and leave. The sky was looking super shady at this point, so it was probably a good idea. We went up to the overpass, and hung out for a while longer, then after a bit, they started the game again. The delay was 62 minutes long. At this point, my shorts were soaked.
The rain was still pouring though, so we didn’t return to our seats, we stayed up in the overpass to watch. We spent the rest of the first half there, halftime, and then about half of the second half up there, trying to dry off. Finally, when there was about 30 minutes left, the rain stopped, so we went down to our seats. The game ended in a tie, 2-2, but we sadly lost the Rocky Mountain Cup. I’m not entirely sure how, something about the point system and all that, but that’s ok. Finally, the game was over, and we ran to our car, cranked up the heat, then went and got our post-game ice cream, then back to the room to take off all my soaking wet clothes. However, we were lucky in that there was no tornado.
