Saturday, September 17, 2011

Aspen Day #2

Today we ended up not doing anything that we had planned to do.  But sometimes that is what makes vacations fun, rolling with the flow of things.  It rained all day today so the hot air balloon show was off.  Bummer!  We drove to Snowmass anyway, just to check it out.  Cute little place.

We changed hotels and decided to splurge since we haven't taken a vacation in nearly two years.  We were pleasantly surprised when they up graded us to a two bedroom.  We ended up with a condo type place with a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and two baths... SWEET!!!

Since it was raining we took a long afternoon nap (my sick body really appreciated it!) and we wandered the Saturday market in the rain.  We also spent a good bit of time sitting in coffee shops trying to warm up.   After our nap we went to the Aspen Brewery.  Its opened in 2008 and is not yet selling their beers outside of Aspen.   It was really good and they plan on starting to bottle and sell their brews in the late fall.  We had another yummy dinner and then put our very sleepy little one to bed.

We are hoping that tomorrow will be less rainy so we can check  out the balloon festival and do some hiking in the mountains.  Below are some random pictures I snapped with my iPhone today.

"I hate the rain!"

Matthew running around a coffee shop. 

More walking around in the rain, I was freezing but Matthew was all snugly warm. 

Downtown Aspen

They have such fun electronic cars in this town. 

Another cool electric car. 

Not just a Segue but an off road Segue?  Really?....

Our hotel living room and kitchen. 

View from the Brewery... beautiful!

Matthew loved banging on the bell and making it ring. 

Click on this and read... I promise it will make you laugh.. this was on the wall at the brewery. 

Matthew saw the big water fountain and just squealed with delight. 

Finally some sunshine!  So we went for another stroll. 

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