My Colorado Trip

My memory recall is bad but I will do my best to put a little story together about our trip to Colorado.

Well I am back from my week long vacation to Colorado. Amy Jo and I went to Colorado for a week to visit with my cousin Sandy and her family. We had a fantastic time but oh how I wish it was not over.

Day One:
Amy and I started out last Saturday (Valentine's Day) Flying out to Denver Colorado. Sandy and Bartee have a Condo in Summit County so we took a shuttle from the Denver Airport when we got there to a transportation center in Summit County where we met up with Sandy and she took us on to the condo. I have to tell you when we got to the transportation center that night I thought to my self "What have we gotten our self's into?" You see the wind was blowing at what felt like 100mph and the snow was blowing around it felt like we had dropped into the middle of Alaska. We hung around the condo Saturday night and just had some nice conversation.

Day Two:
I had made reservations to go on a guided two hour snowmobile ride with High Country Tours. I think Amy would agree that this day (the riding) was the most fun of our trip the guide we had was great the machines were super and the two hour time frame was just enough. We both had our own machines so there was no fighting over who was going to drive although by one or two of the pictures from that day you can clearly see who the better driver was. LOL They had longer tours but I don't think we could have handled much more. I for sure would recommend "High Country Tours" to anyone who was going to be in Summit County and wants to do some snowmobile riding.

Some pictures from that day.

As you can see the snowmobile is on its side want to take a guess who was driving that one? One hint it wasn't me. LOL. Amy blames it on the "soft snow" In her defense I almost lost it in this same spot :)

Our guide thought this was funny he is the one that took the picture with Amy's camera. After we were done with our snowmobile rides we had some lunch in Dillon. Then from there we took the Summit County Express (a free shuttle service) And met up with Sandy Bartee and the kids they were in Keystone on skis. Both Amy and I thought it was NOT a good idea to try and ski. We walked around Keystone a little bit with Sandy and Bartee and had a few cocktails and some good conversation. We left Keystone and headed back to the condo where we put on our swimsuits yes I said swimsuits. And jumped into the outdoor hot tub. Much to my surprise it really was not cold at all once you were down in the hot tub even though the outside air temperature was only in the 30's. We then headed back to the condo for the night where we had some wonderful soup that Sandy had made and played a few games of Greedy one of those games of greedy I think was the longest one I have ever played. LOL

This is where I am going to close this for now for the day. I will post more about our trip in the days to come. keep checking back.
I will also post a few more pictures below


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The picture below was our guide on the snowmobile tour


Below is a picture from our 3rd day but I thought it was a good shot of Sandy, Bartee and the kids :)