5th Anniversary
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randomdreams and I celebrated the 5th anniversary of our relationship, proving that from time to time those early spring, late winter relationships hold some steam.
We had adventures.
We started off our 4-day weekend with dinner at Parisi. We love Troy. We love the food.
Friday morning we did a hot air balloon ride over Boulder/Gunbarrel. Unfortunately, the forests in Colorado have been burning and the sky was smokey, bad for photos, but a good ride all the same.
John helped fill the balloon.
I got briefly woozy when the balloon kept going up and down and up and down and it gets really hot up there next to those propane jets. Once we hit some wind, I cooled off, I felt better.
Did you know you can play bumper cars with hot air balloons?
We landed in the field in front of Celestial Seasonings Tea Company. They were having a yard sale, so we have much tea.
Off to Ouray, Co.
We stayed the Hotel Ouray,
http://www.ourayhotel.com/
quite nice, and The Wiesbaden,
http://www.wiesbadenhotsprings.com/
which didn't quite match all the hoopala and fancy reputation.
If we ever go again, we'll stay at The Beaumont.
http://www.beaumonthotel.com/
We found a blacksmith.
An old mining cart.
Hiked up above the town.
Hiked up to the top of Box Canyon.
Looked out over the bridge.
John got a bit iffy about the bridge, so I jumped up and down on it yelling, "I'M GONNA BREAK THE BRIDGE!"
Climbed down into the base of the canyon.
Mushrooms!
Sunday, it poured. We're glad we hiked and toured and shopped on Saturday, because Ouray became Mudville. We headed over to Telluride.
I guess something famous called The Telluride Film Festival happens there, and we accidentally walked into some of it. So we got sammiches and left the rainy famous people to their botox.
And drove to Bridal Veil Falls.
Somebody lived up there!
A long, strange back way to Grand Junction where we got a room at the Hamptons Inn with a GIANT bed, shampoo, and no noisy children (THANKS Weisbaden and your no shampoo, tiny bed and amok children!)
Grand Junction now has public art.
And Glenwood Springs had a Merrells shoe sale.
randomdreams and I celebrated the 5th anniversary of our relationship, proving that from time to time those early spring, late winter relationships hold some steam.We had adventures.
We started off our 4-day weekend with dinner at Parisi. We love Troy. We love the food.
Friday morning we did a hot air balloon ride over Boulder/Gunbarrel. Unfortunately, the forests in Colorado have been burning and the sky was smokey, bad for photos, but a good ride all the same.
John helped fill the balloon.
I got briefly woozy when the balloon kept going up and down and up and down and it gets really hot up there next to those propane jets. Once we hit some wind, I cooled off, I felt better.
Did you know you can play bumper cars with hot air balloons?
We landed in the field in front of Celestial Seasonings Tea Company. They were having a yard sale, so we have much tea.
Off to Ouray, Co.
We stayed the Hotel Ouray,
http://www.ourayhotel.com/
quite nice, and The Wiesbaden,
http://www.wiesbadenhotsprings.com/
which didn't quite match all the hoopala and fancy reputation.
If we ever go again, we'll stay at The Beaumont.
http://www.beaumonthotel.com/
We found a blacksmith.
An old mining cart.
Hiked up above the town.
Hiked up to the top of Box Canyon.
Looked out over the bridge.
John got a bit iffy about the bridge, so I jumped up and down on it yelling, "I'M GONNA BREAK THE BRIDGE!"
Climbed down into the base of the canyon.
Mushrooms!
Sunday, it poured. We're glad we hiked and toured and shopped on Saturday, because Ouray became Mudville. We headed over to Telluride.
I guess something famous called The Telluride Film Festival happens there, and we accidentally walked into some of it. So we got sammiches and left the rainy famous people to their botox.
And drove to Bridal Veil Falls.
Somebody lived up there!
A long, strange back way to Grand Junction where we got a room at the Hamptons Inn with a GIANT bed, shampoo, and no noisy children (THANKS Weisbaden and your no shampoo, tiny bed and amok children!)
Grand Junction now has public art.
And Glenwood Springs had a Merrells shoe sale.
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Date: 2008-09-02 05:04 am (UTC)Come see the house! :D
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Date: 2008-09-02 05:12 am (UTC)I think you called within the 1 hour I've had reception since Friday! You have ESP.
How was Sears?
Thursday?
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Date: 2008-09-02 05:44 am (UTC)ESP not so much, just random dumb luck. We called one or two other times with no success. :)
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Date: 2008-09-02 06:12 am (UTC)I visited Telluride in 1981 when it was still small and partially ruined. I understand those days are over.
Congratulations!
Date: 2008-09-02 08:31 am (UTC);-)
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Date: 2008-09-02 10:37 am (UTC)And, this made me miss Colorado!
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Date: 2008-09-02 03:29 pm (UTC)The only time I've been to Telluride was in '91 and it was pretty well yuppified by then. Still a nice place though, and I suppose yuppification is preferable to becoming a ghost town.
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Date: 2008-09-02 04:14 pm (UTC)And congratulations to both of you!
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Date: 2008-09-02 05:10 pm (UTC)GJ has become a fairly livable place in the last few years.
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Date: 2008-09-03 01:49 am (UTC)However, the Free Stuff box is still up on the wall at Main and 6th, and still full of housewares and clothes, with people actively trading, and there are still hippies with knitted rainbow berets.
But just outside of town, on all sides, are the $10M+ homes, like castles, practically forming a wall to keep everyone out.
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Date: 2008-09-03 01:50 am (UTC)Still dead as a doornail on Sunday evening, though.