On our honeymoon, nearly 5 years ago, we decided that we would take a special anniversary trip every five years. This was to be a big trip. Like an all-inclusive resort with a beach, drinks, and relaxation. Months ago we started planning as we decided that taking our trip at little early, in March rather than in June, would be better. I'm off for spring break and my mom is off too which frees her up to watch the kids. Riley didn't think he would be too busy at work either. Summer can be tricky because he is usually very busy and I've got summer camp at the preschool. So the "when" was decided on fairly easily, but the "where"... well that was a whole other story.
We researched resorts, but then had second thoughts due to cost and all the other things that we could do with that money. So then we thought about something small like Colorado. We soon reminded ourselves that this was suppose to be a big trip since we were only doing it every 5 years and went back to our research. Still not wanting to spend too much money we researched using timeshares from Grammy. We thought about Florida, but flights were so costly that an all-inclusive was pretty comparable. So we went back to the idea of a fancy resort... maybe we could use timeshares for that... but do we want to really be that far away from the kids especially with Paisley being so young...and Pais has been having teething troubles and really is a momma's girl when she's not feeling well...and what about traveling with breastmilk...and do I really want to be leaving a beach to go pump...and we've got to get our money's worth in drinks, so will I have to dump everything that I pump... and on and on and on....
So we just went to Colorado.
It was a good trip and what we needed. We were able to reconnect, relax and get recharged which is really what we needed in the first place.
I don't have a ton of photos (other than mountain scenery photos) because we really didn't do a whole lot... but it was a nice relaxing trip and Riley was happy that I didn't make him take a bunch of photos.
The beginning of our longest road trip with just the two of us.
The beginning of our longest road trip with just the two of us.
We were told that it was snowing in the mountains and started to run into a bit of snow, but nothing too bad... then we went through a long tunnel and when we came out on the other side, well that was another story! It was super slick and traffic was moving really slowly.
We made it to Silverthorne, got settled into the condo and found a yummy stop to eat - The Dam Brewery.
Later in our trip we ate at Ollie's Pub and Grill. They had awesome burgers.
We've already resolved that our trip for our 10th anniversary will be some sort of all-inclusive resort. We'll just have to see in another 5 years if that one will actually happen ;)
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