Play Time Over With
Well, I am finally home now from my little getaway trip with the SO. He's probably back in New York now, and I am better rested (took a little 4 hour nap when I got home).
It was a great little vacation: we stayed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, did some hiking in neighboring Rocky Mountain National Park, the SO did some fishing in Estes Lake, took a Ghost Tour on our last day, and I bought some cool rocks at a rock shop in town, a Celestite cluster and a Smokey Quartz cluster. Staying at the hotel was nice, we stayed on the fourth floor, which is supposed to the be the most haunted floor in the hotel. I left some candy for the two little child ghosts that are said to frequent the fourth floor, which housed the children and their nannies back in the day. The hotel was built in 1907 and completed in 1909. The hotel has seen a lot of prominent and famous guests, to include Pink, John McCain, Jim Carrey, Barbara Streisand, and of course, Stephen King, where he got the idea to write "The Shining" while he stayed there. The ghosts at the Stanley are way more friendly then the ghosts of King's "Shining". :-)
After we checked out, we drove down to Denver and checked into a hotel near the University of Denver. We were there to do the Pat's Run, a run to commemorate and celebrate the short life of Pat Tillman. The main run occurs in Tempe, Arizona, at Arizona State University (where Tillman went to school and played college football), while about 25 Shadow Runs occurred across the country, Denver being one of the locations for a Shadow Run. We got our shirts earlier in the week, so we were ready to run. :-) It took place at nearby Washington Park where we did two laps (the 4.2 miles--his college football jersey # is 42) around the lakes there. It's a really nice park! I wish Laramie had such a park to run in. After the run on Saturday, we hoofed it back to the hotel, showered and walked down to Dave & Busters and ate some lunch and played games all afternoon: skee ball, NASCAR, air hockey, pool, horse racing, Ms. Pacman, some game where you had to shoot zombies, and I think my favorite, Jurassic Park, where you had to shoot the dinosaurs coming at you. That was fun, especially when they actually got you (the 'screams' and blood spurting everywhere were pretty funny!). We stayed at the hotel a second night so I could just drive the SO to the airport and drop him off. Then it was back to Laramie via Hwy 287, a nice scenic drive back to town.
The cats were pretty happy to see me :-) I really missed them; I was thinking about Darwin especially. He can be such a cranky cat sometimes, but he can also be very loving, which he was when I walked in the door.
Now I'm just relaxing; I'm not even looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Having a week off was just what I needed though. I'll be going to see the SO again next month to go to our last military ball. My dress came in this week and it was waiting for me when I got home. I tried it on and it fits great, but I want to try and lose a few pounds before the ball. I'm going to wear the same shoes that I wore to my sister's wedding, so that's set--no new shoes to buy. Maybe just a new purse and a wrap of some sort. After that, I won't see him again until July, when he'll be home for GOOD. Good!
It was a great little vacation: we stayed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, did some hiking in neighboring Rocky Mountain National Park, the SO did some fishing in Estes Lake, took a Ghost Tour on our last day, and I bought some cool rocks at a rock shop in town, a Celestite cluster and a Smokey Quartz cluster. Staying at the hotel was nice, we stayed on the fourth floor, which is supposed to the be the most haunted floor in the hotel. I left some candy for the two little child ghosts that are said to frequent the fourth floor, which housed the children and their nannies back in the day. The hotel was built in 1907 and completed in 1909. The hotel has seen a lot of prominent and famous guests, to include Pink, John McCain, Jim Carrey, Barbara Streisand, and of course, Stephen King, where he got the idea to write "The Shining" while he stayed there. The ghosts at the Stanley are way more friendly then the ghosts of King's "Shining". :-)
After we checked out, we drove down to Denver and checked into a hotel near the University of Denver. We were there to do the Pat's Run, a run to commemorate and celebrate the short life of Pat Tillman. The main run occurs in Tempe, Arizona, at Arizona State University (where Tillman went to school and played college football), while about 25 Shadow Runs occurred across the country, Denver being one of the locations for a Shadow Run. We got our shirts earlier in the week, so we were ready to run. :-) It took place at nearby Washington Park where we did two laps (the 4.2 miles--his college football jersey # is 42) around the lakes there. It's a really nice park! I wish Laramie had such a park to run in. After the run on Saturday, we hoofed it back to the hotel, showered and walked down to Dave & Busters and ate some lunch and played games all afternoon: skee ball, NASCAR, air hockey, pool, horse racing, Ms. Pacman, some game where you had to shoot zombies, and I think my favorite, Jurassic Park, where you had to shoot the dinosaurs coming at you. That was fun, especially when they actually got you (the 'screams' and blood spurting everywhere were pretty funny!). We stayed at the hotel a second night so I could just drive the SO to the airport and drop him off. Then it was back to Laramie via Hwy 287, a nice scenic drive back to town.
The cats were pretty happy to see me :-) I really missed them; I was thinking about Darwin especially. He can be such a cranky cat sometimes, but he can also be very loving, which he was when I walked in the door.
Now I'm just relaxing; I'm not even looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Having a week off was just what I needed though. I'll be going to see the SO again next month to go to our last military ball. My dress came in this week and it was waiting for me when I got home. I tried it on and it fits great, but I want to try and lose a few pounds before the ball. I'm going to wear the same shoes that I wore to my sister's wedding, so that's set--no new shoes to buy. Maybe just a new purse and a wrap of some sort. After that, I won't see him again until July, when he'll be home for GOOD. Good!