For the first time since we brought two little souls into our lives, we decided to take a "family getaway" to celebrate our oldest going to Kindergarten next week. I know! Kindergarten! I'm sure lots of experienced parents out there are rolling their eyes and asking what the big deal is, but for us, it's very big! And we needed to celebrate it. We decided to stay in-state and go somewhere that I've been DYING to I go to for a long time - Glenwood Springs, CO. The drive has always been a little daunting for us, but we decided to go with it. The girls could watch a movie (or two!) on the iPad along with having a few snacks to go with. Needless to say, they did AWESOME. They even napped, which was unexpected. We hit a few of the big ticket items in Glenwood Springs, one of which was the
Glenwood Cavern Adventure Park that is accessible by taking a gondola/tram up a mountain to a little theme park. Unfortunately for Littlest One, lots of things were aged 3+, so she and I spent a lot of time eating ice cream and playing in the dirt. The bigger one had a great time!
At this adventure park, there's lots of trails up and down the mountain to get to various attractions. We were all walking up to one of the them, when we heard "DADDY HEWP!!" When I looked back, sweet baby girl had managed to slip and was half under a plastic fence with her leg going down the mountain. I got over to her and helped her up, but as I stood up, my phone fell and landed on the ground, face down. I knew it was trouble as soon as I saw it land. When I picked it up, it was completely shatter. Ugh. The good news: the phone is completely functional. Just shattered. So after a fair amount of web searching since the incident I decided to just have the screen replaced...I know, voiding any potential opportunity to have Apple work on it for me, but much cheaper then getting a replacement phone! And with my contract up in December, there's a slight possibility of getting a new iPhone 6...although I'm not completely sold on that idea yet either. Anyhoo, here in about 15 minutes I'm hoping that my phone will be back to new and be working great. Update: It's working great! I'm thrilled!!!
The rest of the weekend was loads of fun; we spent a lot of time swimming in the
hot springs pool, taking naps, and eating (my favorite). The girls had a BALL swimming as much as they could...even the 2 year old, although she gets tired faster. It was a little bit of a hike over to the pools from our hotel (Hotel Denver), but both of the girls did great. Speaking of,
Hotel Denver is AWESOME. Granted, it's old, and has some features of an old hotel, but it was clean, quiet, and the hotel staff was awesome. The best part was that we could buy discounted hot spring passes, and they'd let us borrow huge white towels and would throw in a bottle of water for each of us too.
We pretty much enjoyed all of the restaurant that we ate at, with the exception of the Brew Pub right at the Hotel Denver. While they were super convenient (and you can wait for your table in your room, with beers, and they'll call you when the table is ready!), the items that we ordered weren't fantastic, and the service for us was SLOW. Which blows my mind a little, since there were tables that got sat AFTER us, that got to order, eat, and leave before us! So maybe it was just our server that wasn't paying attention. We were certainly making enough noise, you would think they'd want to get us out of there as fast as possible! Other restaurants that we dined at included
Juicy Lucy's - AMAZING, and a Cajun restaurant, which was also very good, and a nice change of pace, that didn't skimp on quality or service. We rounded out the weekend with a stop at
Beau Jo's for pizza in Idaho Springs, CO.
Now we ramp up for school to start next week. Which is thrilling but scary, and fun all at the same time. I better take my tissues along..might be a long teary walk home for me!
