After our little scenic tour, we stopped at an outdoor shopping/eating area for a great lunch. While I have visited Colorado many times, I often forget how different Colorado's culture is from everything I am used to. People are so keen on staying active and being outdoors. They also bring their dogs with them everywhere. Dress, food, everything is so different from all the places I have lived: South Florida, North Florida, Kentucky, and Minnesota.
After lunch, we hit a local grocery store in Aspen where we paid way too much for groceries. Gosh things are expensive here! (I won't even mention the $7.50 we spent for a tiny thing of suntan lotion.) JB cooked a great Indian meal for all of us, including Dave, who spent the day at an optional conference that JB attended last year and didn't retake. Dave is a year younger than JB in the Eglin residency program and a fantastic guy. He was a great help to us yesterday during our travels and his wife drove us to Pensacola as well. Isaac thinks he is a really cool guy!
Also joining us this evening was Rob, my friend Sarah's husband. He just arrived this evening. All three guys will be busy during the days during the next week while Kelsey hangs out with me and helps me with the boys. We hope to do a bit of exploring but for the most part, will probably hang out in and around our awesome condo which is in a great area! It's a beautiful place right inside Snowmass Village.
So speaking of our travels, as I mentioned in yesterday's post, the trip did go as well as it could have. The boys did a fantastic job. Elijah had a bit of trouble on both flights for about ten minutes as he attempted to fall asleep in our arms when we didn't have much room. Isaac, however, was fascinated by the matchbox cars we bought him and entertained him for much of the flights.
We also found out that we could not sit together much to the dismay of the people sitting next to us who vehemently offered to switch! Apparently you cannot have two lap children in one aisle because they only have one extra oxygen mask per aisle.
The first two hour flight was incredibly uncomfortable as it was a very small plane, and for some reason, they told us that because we were holding children we needed to sit on the inside.
However, the second flight was much better with more room. They originally sat us next to each other in a bulkhead row, only to find out right before takeoff that their policy of one child per row was still in effect. They made me move back to a row farther back next to a very large but very nice man. While he was taking nearly one-third of my seat, he didn't mind when Elijah and then Isaac hit him, kicked him, or tried to talk to him even when he was taking a nap!
One great thing was the USO rooms we were able to visit in both the Pensacola and Dallas airport. These are for active duty military and their dependants. How awesome! Free food (including free boxes of girl scout cookies), children's play areas, computer access, a little movie theatre . . . it was fantastic. Saved us a ton of money in the airport to not have to buy lunch and provided a nice get-away while we waited for our flights to take off.
Anyways . . . both boys are in bed now so I am going to do the same! Night all!
1 comment:
SWEET! Awesome, USO, never heard of those. :)
I always tell people to ride Bulkhead...too bad it didn't work out for y'all.
Have fun in CO, looks beautiful. Made me think of CA where people take their dogs everywhere, walk most places and things at "the market" are WAY too expensive. But like you said, WAY differnt than the culture I am used to. Enjoy! :)
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