Well, I’m finally back at work after the 3 day Memorial Day
weekend, and I must say – I really enjoyed not being on any kind of schedule,
and seeing there the day takes me! Go
back to sleep after waking up too early? Sure!!
Nothing going on this morning?
Enjoy catching up on your DVR!
Nothing going on this afternoon?
Why not take a walk in Old Colorado City?? Getting up and going wherever, whenever, with
no worries about when you need to be home or somewhere else – I could get used
to this. Despite not having any real plans for the weekend, I ended
up having a pretty full schedule! And I
loved every minute of it!
Friday night, I met up with a new friend of mine who just
finished her first year of teaching. To
celebrate, she wanted to head out to Old Colorado City to Thunder and Buttons
for their weekly Bingo game and a beer!
A local radio station holds a free Bingo game there every Friday night, and
they have really great prizes available, like tickets to concerts at Red
Rocks. Sadly, none of us won any prizes,
and the event wrapped up around 8 pm. We
hadn’t really eaten yet, and had only had some hummus and veggies to snack on,
so we walked across the street to Front Range BBQ for some really great
home-cooked meals. We got there just in
time too – there was a BIG rainstorm moving in, and no sooner did we get
inside, then the heavens opened and the rain and hail poured down! Fortunately, it let up just enough for us to
quickly walk back to our cars after dinner, and then it started pouring
again! I fell asleep that night to a
steady stream of raindrops and thunder and lightning – it was just amazing!!
This is my kind of a "30-somethings" Bingo Night!
Saturday morning was one of those great days where I woke up
at the crack of dawn, but was able to fall back asleep and enjoy a few more hours
of sleep before taking a shower and bring Zach his usual Saturday morning breakfast at work – a Starbucks coffee
and a blueberry muffin. It’s something I
started doing when we first started dating, so that I could see him more often,
plus I felt like it was something small I could do since he had to work on a
weekend, and no one really likes that!!
After stopping by to see Zach, I met my sister and her
family in town from Berthoud for breakfast.
We took our time enjoying Panera Bread, and then headed over to
Territory Days in Old Colorado City, which is held each Memorial Day weekend,
and is kind of an unofficial kick off to summer. We were lucky enough to enjoy a day with a
slight cloud cover but no rain, so it wasn’t too hot or sticky, and we didn’t
get rained out! Afterwards, we stopped
by the Colorado Mountain Brewery, which is a local favorite place for myself
and Zach, and enjoyed yet another great meal!!
We had a great time at Territory Days!!
Sunday morning I was able to coordinate a small field trip
for Susan, Byron and the kids to see Zach at work, and check out all his golf
equipment!! Owen is especially in love
with all things “machines” – tractors, monster trucks, fire engines – basically
anything with big wheels and engines and lights! Zach has been willing to give them a tour for
a while, but it hasn’t really worked out for them until this weekend! We spent about a half an hour with them
climbing on all the tractors and machines before Zach had to get back out on
the course, and then we decided to drive around to see if there was something
fun we could do! We ended up stopping at
the Starsmore Discovery Center in the neighborhood behind the Broadmoor, and
the kids enjoyed checking out the nature!
We had a quick lunch at Noodles, Inc. before I left and headed home for
a while to relax.
Zach was a good sport, giving them a ride in his golf cart (I think that made their day!!) and for letting them climb over all the machines!!
The three kids outside of the Starsmore Discover Center after the trip to the Broadmoor!
But wait … there’s more!
Monday was Memorial Day, and the only day that I didn’t have
anything planned, not even tentatively! Susan
and her family were heading back up to Berthoud, Zach unfortunately had to
work, and friends that I would have hung out with were all out of town. So I was on my own! Instead of going back to sleep this time, I
stayed up and watched some great shows on the Food Network, and enjoyed the
regularly scheduled day-time programming that I always miss while I’m at work
during the week! Zach called me around
11:30 to see if I wanted to meet up for lunch, and we met up at Qdoba for a
quick meal. He had to run back to work,
and ended up working a 12 hour day, which was pretty stressful for him, so I
hope our lunch break was a little bit of a bright spot in his day!
After lunch, we got another rainstorm, and after that passed
through, I thought it would be nice to get outside and at least enjoy some
exercise and walk to Old Colorado City for Territory Days again. It was a MADHOUSE!! It was by far less crowded when I went on
Saturday morning with my family, so needless to say, I didn’t enjoy it as much
on Monday. But, they did have a special
presentation for Veterans around 3 pm in the city center, so I stuck around for
that before heading home. Zach and I
spent that night just enjoying some Chinese food and watched Frequency – which,
shockingly to us, came out 14 years ago!! Just crazy to think about…
Celebrating our troops on Memorial Day - Past, present and future! Thank you for serving!!
Looking back, I can’t believe I fit all that into the weekend, and it somehow seems like it was a nice, long weekend, but also went TOO fast. I definitely got some great memories out of it though!!
