to set up a couple posts for while we were in Colorful Colorado. :)
we went with fantastic friends and enjoyed wonderful weather and spectacular slopes.
(how's that for alliteration?)
we also enjoyed an extra restful day (after i let go of the fact that it wasn't planned...not easy for me if you didn't know).
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at our hotel, you could walk to the starbucks without even going outside...ie i wore my slippers and sweatpants. this was our view Friday morning. it was super lovely, and very misleading. if you were outside of downtown without buildings blocking the wind, it was apparently much more blizzard like.
like close all the highways that go east out of denver.
close them for 30 hours kind of blizzard.
it was crazy. i have never seen snow like that. for real. i wish it would snow like that here...just once a year. it's amazing!
here are some other pictures from the trip...mostly taken on my iphone since i kept forgetting my camera.
that my friends is a moose. he was about 30 feet from our car on the way to the awesome cabin. we just stopped an watched him and the 30 elk that were wandering on the hillside. moose (or mooses, what's the plural of that?) are huge! and apparently he was a small one.
taking a little break, basking in the sun and warming my toes by the fire.
i always have snow/ice stuck to my left boot. i can only seem to come to a complete stop with my left foot down the mountain. for some reason it does not work, at all, on the right side. just so you know.
on the back side of the mountain at Sol Vista...turns out we got a little lost after that and ended up at a bunch of condos...but worth it for the view!
on the way to the very top of the mountain at Winter Park it was so beautiful and so windy and so cold!
at the very top, not the best picture, but i was getting frost bite on my gloveless hand.
warming up after a long day and enjoying a steaming cup of joe.
one more picture to wrap up this post...
that my friends is the view from the bathroom at the cabin. i know it's hard to tell in the picture because the blinds interrupt the picture but the view from the bathroom certainly is a bonus in the morning. :)