Friday night in big D (enver)

Amy had plans for us in Denver Friday night. First, we picked up Amy's friend Becca on our way downtown for a drink. Becca is an Iowa girl - she grew up in Muscatine and like her daddy works for the investment firm, Edward D. Jones. Becca is a University of Iowa grad who worked in Santa Barbara for a few years after college. Besides being Amy's friend, she also assists our daughter with her IRA account.

We parked in a city lot downtown (and chatting, stupidly forgot to pay the man...cha-ching $60 fine later when we came out. OUCH). We headed up to a mod lounge at the top of a hotel on something like the 27th floor. It had a beautiful view of downtown and the mountains. A few minutes after we got settled, Amy's friend Rachel, an English teacher, arrived with her Mom who was visiting from Urbandale along with a friend of hers from Adel. We had a nice adult bevvie and chatted about jobs and Iowa stuff.

Later we dropped Becca off on our way to Amy's surprise for her daddy (her daddy's day gift)- an evening at Denver's oldest restaurant:
Buckhorn Exchange
http://www.buckhorn.com/

This guy smiled at me whilst I ate

We shared a meal of bison, elk and a tiny bird, with an appetizer of fried artichoke. We so enjoyed an evening of catching up on Creston talk and hearing about Amy's life in Denver. The meat was all so tender and the atmosphere unique and interesting. Quite a night.

This guy stared at me whilst I ate...

Saturday we were off fairly early - heading for the hills...but not without stopping at the Duffyroll joint. Uncle Bill usually gets these unique rolls when we stay with them. We picked up Amy and our first stop with Silverthorne where they have, you guessed it, a Columbia Outlet Store. We ate a Noodle Joint, arriving at Lefebvre's just before 2 p.m.

Really...it's a rooster with a boulder in it...from Iowa with love! And check out Bolder's shorts!

Bolder - the mayor

Bolder and Cindo loved the Boulder Rooster (or faked it well). It was our first chance to see Cindo after her partial knee replacement surgery. She's still on one crutch, but it getting around pretty well. In July she'll get the other one done. We had a nice drink at E-Town, where Bolder spends time shooting the breeze with the fellas.

That night friends Bonnie and Eric and our nephew chef supreme Colby came over to Lefebvre's for a fab supper.

Colby lives in his own apartment these days and works in the valley for a chain of barbecue restaurants. Good food, conversation, and a good time - celebrating Bolder's completion of radiation.

We know where Colby gets his cookin' genes!

That concludes our Saturday. We did miss our Juddy - who was busy helping GF Kara move to a new apartment in Kansas City.