For the next 18 months the two of us, Eli and Katy, and our two mutts, Colby and Barlow, will travel the United States three months at a time. Katy, who graduated in December with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Elon University, is doing travel therapy and will do 13 week rotations at different locations around the country. We're going to try and use this opportunity to experience as much as we can, and then share our adventures with our friends and family.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Christmas Part 1

After Katy's first week of work, we had another round of visitors. This time Katy's parents, Dave and Sherry, flew out to celebrate an early Christmas with us. We picked them up at midnight on Friday night, December 17th. Saturday we spent the morning relaxing and then headed into downtown Denver that afternoon to do some shopping before meeting up with Aunt Cyndi for dinner at Rock Bottom Brewery. After a delicious meal we walked over to the Denver Performing Arts Center to watch "A Christmas Carol." The tickets to the play were given to us as a gift from Seth and Brittany...it was a wonderful play and a great evening!
At the Celestial Seasonings tour
On Sunday we headed down to Boulder and took Dave and Sherry on the Celestial Seasonings tour and then spent time sampling all of their different tea. After leaving Boulder we headed up into the mountains and went to Estes Park. We grabbed some lunch and after a little shopping headed to the Stanley Hotel. This hotel is a famous destination in the Rocky Mountains as it is the spot where Steven King was inspired to write The Shining. It is also the location where the TV miniseries based on the book was filmed, it was the fictional Danbury Hotel in the movie Dumb and Dumber, and it has been featured multiple times on the television series, Ghost Hunters. We spent time at the hotel walking around and enjoying the stunning views it offers. When we got back to Denver that night Cyndi, forever the hostess and chef, had cooked us an incredible meal of a pork roast with a grape chutney, potato gratin, brussel sprouts, rolls, and for dessert an apple pie.


On  Monday Katy took the day off and we headed up into the mountains again, this time up I-70W to Breckenridge. We stopped first in Georgetown and decided to walk on their lake, and yes, I mean literally!


After doing a little impromptu ice skating we went to Breckenridge to have lunch and show Dave and Sherry around one of our favorite mountain towns. That night we picked up pizza and watched a Christmas movie together before hitting the sack. On Tuesday Katy was back to work and so I drove Dave and Sherry down to Boulder to show them where Katy worked and to have lunch together. Afterwards Dave and Sherry did some shopping in downtown while I had two interviews. That night Katy and I cooked crab cakes for dinner and we celebrated our own little "Christmas" together, even if we were a few days early from the actual date. It was a special evening and nice to be together enjoying the holidays. Wednesday we said goodbye and then began preparing for the next round of visitors, my whole family, to come in less then a week!

Dave and Sherry got out of Denver just in time because Wednesday night we got hit with a snowstorm that dumped close to a foot of snow on us. On Thursday Katy stayed home from work and we enjoyed our snow day together, playing with the dogs outside and getting most of our wrapping done! Hard to believe Christmas is just around the corner!
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