I don’t feel like I’ve been able to catch up at all this month. It seems to be one thing after another going on.
Joe arrived at DIA on Thursday afternoon to spend the weekend with us. As luck would have it, he forgot his cell phone in his car so there was no way to communicate where we all were. After driving around the airport for half an hour, I ended up searching inside and bouncing between three different levels before coincidentally passing Joe on th escalators. Once we were back in the car, we were on our way to the Great American Beer Fest. There were over 4,000 brewers from around the country on site and more bad beers than good. We had a great time even with the lack of food. Now was beer fest veterans, we’ll be wearing our pretzel necklaces next time! We made it home (sober, they were only 1 oz. samplings), let the kids out, and found some food at Old Chicago’s before turning in for the night.
Friday, we met up with my parents for lunch at Panera before heading up to Pikes Peak. The highway to Pikes Peak takes a lot longer than it looks and anything I could do to describe it would not do it justice, check out the pics for proof. We made it back home just in time to get changed before dinner at The Sunbird. While the view was pretty awesome (however, only second best of the day), the food was medicore and way over priced for what it was. Next time, we’ll be going with something a little easier to get to and with guaranteed good food. Nevertheless, we had a great time and my 25th was definitely an unforgettable birthday!
I sent Joe a link before he came out here of Yard House (the place we went with John & Alison in Phoenix). We dropped the kids off with my parents for the day because we were originally planning on going to the Coors tour too (although that didn’t end up happening). I entered in the address of the Yard House before we drove up there and when I did, the same address came up three times – Denver, Lakewood, and Golden. I went ahead and put in Denver because how many of the exact address could there be. We followed the directions downtown and after parallel parking, feeding the meter, and walking three blocks we finally realized that we were at 1450 Colfax. I thought maybe I had maybe forgotten to enter in a zero in the address (the right address was 14500 Colfax), however, somehow I did enter it right. So I changed the city to Lakewood and we ended up further west but not nearly far enough and not at the restaurant. I changed it to Golden and finally we were heading further west again. I ended up calling the restaurant just to verify and the city actually *is* in Lakewood but apparently right on the border of Golden. Ugh, so annoying we ended up downtown originally and we could have taken the business loop around the city and have been there pretty fast. After finally making it to the Yard House, we didn’t feel like waiting or walking around anymore and opted to come back home, grill some steaks, and watch 28 Weeks Later.
Sunday we ate brunch at Mimi’s before taking Joe back to the airport. It was 78 the day he arrived and we hit snow going over Monument Pass. Typical Colorado weather for ya. After all of the driving, we ended up staying home and catching up on TiVo for the rest of the night.
Monday I got bamboozled into going to the Rockies/Diamondbacks game with the rest of the family. It was Game 4 of the National League Championship and the Rockies ended up winning! I’m was only excited because they were the home team, I’m not much of a baseball fan but had a lot better time than I thought I would and was shocked to find out that it was 2 by the time I got home.
I’ve been working part-time for the company a friend works for so that explains the delay in posting. I’ve been trying to get in some missed hours since we’ve been so busy lately. Its been a busy month but we’ve been having a lot of fun hopefully we can rest up before our next trip!
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The kids look so cute in their PJs!