After my late Friday night Denver arrival, I spent Saturday morning basically sleeping and moving very slowly. Which is quite easy to do when one is staying at the most fabulous Brown Palace Hotel, lounging is definitely de rigeur! I will say though, that I was awakened at 9:30 AM by the sound of a dog barking right ouside my door. Ooooh - The Brown is pet friendly!!!! I heard the dog again at 11:30 AM and this time went zipping out of my room to meet the pooch. She was a very cute weimaranar puppy named Haley.
I spent yesterday afternoon and early evening furiously geocaching. I want to get my 200th cache on this trip and my count was at 189. I managed to polish off 7 caches yesterday and by the time I finished it was pitch black.
I also set a cache in the park right across the street from where we lived until I was six years old - that's when Mom and I moved to Alaska. Of course, when one sets a cache outside of one's home area, one needs someone in the area to monitor the cache. But the great thing about geocaching is that finding a babysitter is easy - even if you don't know any cachers in the area. I just looked at who had set a bunch of caches in the area of my new cache and sent them an email asking them if they would babysit my cache. They were thrilled and immediately agreed! Isn't that nifty?!!!!
After my hard day of geocaching, Lucy and I met for dinner at Barolo - probably my favorite Northern Italian restaurant of all time. Man - their food is exquisite. We ended up sitting at the bar which was the icing on the cake. Our bartender was great and on the house, she poured us each of glass of La Villa by Gigliardo. The la Villa is an Asti Muscat. OMIGOD - the perfect combination of a late harvest Muscat and a sparkling Asti. It was absolutely astounding. Big time yum!
The perfect topper to a great day!
Now for Pictures.
This is the old Elitch's Carousel Pavillion. The old Elitch's was just six blocks from our home. I loved Elitch's fabulous gardens. The new development that is now where Elitch's used to be is really depressing. No hint at all of the grand style that had occupied that same area.
Our old house on Wolff Street.
Pferdestellar Park - right across the street from our house.
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