I hope to make this the first of
several posts about the recent trip I took with a group of Seattle buddies to visit
my folks in the "Mile High City" of Denver, CO. They were incredibly gracious to offer up their home to all 8 of us to crash in their various rooms for the extended stay!! Friday night they prepared a delicious turkey buffet for us all that we crashed through, leaving nothing but some small scraps of the huge offering. We followed this with a fun night of cards playing "Mean-spirited Matey" to go along with our pirate themed weekend!! (See attached photos for proof of branding!!) On Saturday we started off right at
The Delectable Egg, great food and a good way to start the day. With coffee in tow we headed to the nearby hills to check out
Golden, CO and most importantly take the awesome tour at the
Coors Brewery!! Pics include the crew as we hit the half-way point
of the tour to sample some fresh beer to be ready for the rest of the day. After the tour we ran through downtown Golden to eat lunch at Woody's for their great pizza buffet and gather about the earliest known Colorado pirate, none other then Adolph Coors, who started the brewery. Imagine our
surprise and excitement!! From Golden we headed up nearby Lookout Mountain to see the grave of
Buffalo Bill and some native wildlife on the way including deer and elk marching through the snow. After some pics at the
grave site (
Brrrrr, it was cold!!) we headed down the mountains back to Denver to
rendezvous with Jess and head back home.
Following some quick
downtime we headed out for the night on the town with dinner at
Lime followed by drinks at the
Funky Buddha and dancing for some on the split levels of
Club Vinyl. We followed up the night with a slow start with coffee
graciously procured by the ladies and some football on the tune. We headed out the to get some more good pizza at
Old Chicago and from their on to the Sunday night football clash between the Denver Broncos and the visiting Seattle
Seahawks. Exciting, if not a little sloppy, game which the
seahawks pulled out with a last minute field goal 23-20. Bummer was that all-pro, and all around good
gu
y, Al Wilson was hurt for the Broncos in the game,
definitely took some air out of the proceedings. Next morning it was off to the
airport where we altered some flight so that Amy, John,
Todd Moore, and myself left late on Monday night, getting to spend another full day with the Weaver Parents in sunny Colorado hitting the
Northfield and
Cherrycreek malls before finishing off right with
Chipotle burritos and some free
tix from the airlines!! A great trip and one of my favorite in recent memory, a memory that is getting shorter now that I am 33 as of last Wednesday!! Hope all is well out there.
my folks in the "Mile High City" of Denver, CO. They were incredibly gracious to offer up their home to all 8 of us to crash in their various rooms for the extended stay!! Friday night they prepared a delicious turkey buffet for us all that we crashed through, leaving nothing but some small scraps of the huge offering. We followed this with a fun night of cards playing "Mean-spirited Matey" to go along with our pirate themed weekend!! (See attached photos for proof of branding!!) On Saturday we started off right at The Delectable Egg, great food and a good way to start the day. With coffee in tow we headed to the nearby hills to check out Golden, CO and most importantly take the awesome tour at the Coors Brewery!! Pics include the crew as we hit the half-way point
of the tour to sample some fresh beer to be ready for the rest of the day. After the tour we ran through downtown Golden to eat lunch at Woody's for their great pizza buffet and gather about the earliest known Colorado pirate, none other then Adolph Coors, who started the brewery. Imagine our surprise and excitement!! From Golden we headed up nearby Lookout Mountain to see the grave of Buffalo Bill and some native wildlife on the way including deer and elk marching through the snow. After some pics at the grave site (Brrrrr, it was cold!!) we headed down the mountains back to Denver to rendezvous with Jess and head back home. Following some quick 
downtime we headed out for the night on the town with dinner at Lime followed by drinks at the Funky Buddha and dancing for some on the split levels of Club Vinyl. We followed up the night with a slow start with coffee graciously procured by the ladies and some football on the tune. We headed out the to get some more good pizza at Old Chicago and from their on to the Sunday night football clash between the Denver Broncos and the visiting Seattle Seahawks. Exciting, if not a little sloppy, game which the seahawks pulled out with a last minute field goal 23-20. Bummer was that all-pro, and all around good gu
y, Al Wilson was hurt for the Broncos in the game, definitely took some air out of the proceedings. Next morning it was off to the airport where we altered some flight so that Amy, John, Todd Moore, and myself left late on Monday night, getting to spend another full day with the Weaver Parents in sunny Colorado hitting the Northfield and Cherrycreek malls before finishing off right with Chipotle burritos and some free tix from the airlines!! A great trip and one of my favorite in recent memory, a memory that is getting shorter now that I am 33 as of last Wednesday!! Hope all is well out there.
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