Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Halfiversary Celebration!

This last weekend we celebrate our 6 month anniversary of being married, otherwise known as a halfiversary. I found a good deal on a little Inn up in Aspen, so we headed there for the weekend. On the way we had the pleasure of driving through Breckenridge and Vail. Check out these pics of some of the coolest places in Colorado! We left at about 6 am, so we got to see some of the sunrise.

Breckenridge





 Vail







 We took a ride on a gondola up the mountain!





 Cool building/restaurant on top of the mountain for skiers.



 Reminded me of Grandma Barb : )



 Snowboarding/Skiing museum.
 Aspen
 The women's world championship "Winternational" skiing competition was held in Aspen over the weekend, so there was a lot of cool free events and activities!


 The courtyard at the Annabelle Inn : )


 They shot fireworks off in the mountain at night, we sat and watched them from the hot tub in the bottom corner of this picture.


 Free concert! We didn't go. It was a band we didn't know. But still cool.























 Allison was very excited to see a moose crossing sign : )

That's all for now!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

a trip to Westcliffe, CO.

We decided to make a trip to Westcliffe, which is about 2 hours from Colorado Springs. We know that Allison's Uncle and Aunt are planning to move to Westcliffe, so this post is dedicated to Todd and Angie! Hope to see you guys out here soon!


 One of the guys I work with used to live in this area, and told us we had to go up that road up into the mountains. We found a beautiful area and set up a camp for the day. The roads were not made for small cars, but the Murano did great!




 There was actually snow right next to the place we thought about camping. But at about 4:00pm it was only about 30 degrees with a good breeze, so we decided to not set up the tent and just stay until it got dark.



 I saw the most beautiful brook trout in the stream, this is a picture from the internet. I didn't have time to grab my camera.

All in all we really enjoyed Westcliffe! We ate lunch at a fun pizza place called R's, and it was delicious. We can't wait to have another reason to visit!