I’m a little off my baking game. I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies that
just didn’t turn out. I made chocolate
covered bananas and peanut butter and put them in the refrigerator instead of
the freezer, thus, pure soggy mush was what I found the next day. That also led to me stomping my feet and
pouting like a 3 year old.
But I’m okay now. J
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| View From Our Hotel, Breckenridge, CO |
So instead of a recipe, I’m going to do a vacation review,
which does include food and pictures. We
just got back from a week’s vacation to
Breckenridge, Colorado. It was amazing. We made the 11 hour drive from Kansas City to
Breckenridge. It was a perfect day for a
drive and we even missed a storm that was just south of us, literally, like a ½
mile south.
I won’t bore you with all the fun we had, but here
are some highlights…
We went White Water Rafting (
Performance Tours was such agreat company!) in Buena Vista, CO. And
the drive to Buena Vista was a crazy and beautiful one through the mountains.
(Note the road sign in the picture below.)
We zip lined (
AVA company, great guides) in Idaho Springs,
CO, which was the highlight of the trip for Jake and me. The tour consisted of 6 different zip lines
with the first one starting at the top of a mountain….no big deal. It was also my 30
th birthday so
that was a super fun way to celebrate.
We will probably seek out other zip line tours on all future
vacations.
We tried to limit the meals out to just one a day, and boy,
did we eat some great food. There are sooo many choices in Breckenridge alone; there is something for everyone.
Mi Casa in Breckenridge was highly recommended and did not
disappoint.
Empire Burger, also highly recommended, had the most amazing
and fresh burgers. Apparently we ate the
burgers and onion rings before we remembered to snap a picture. But
here are some pictures from Trip
Advisor.
Giampietro was the spot for our Italian food fix. We had the new York style pizza with
pepperoni and sausage. It not only was
our dinner, but our breakfast and lunch the following day.
Of course I had to have some kind of sweet, especially on my
birthday. We picked up cupcakes at
Rocky Mountain Cupcake. I had the Rocky
Mountain (seemed fitting) and Jacob had Cookie’s and Cream. The cake was firm and the frosting was
perfectly sweet.
If you are looking for a relaxing place to get away
Breckenridge is the place. The scenery
is beautiful, weather is super (August: high of 70’s, low of 50’s), people are
friendly, tons of outdoor activities, unique shops, and lots of food options.
OH – our puppy. Henry
stayed at his favorite place, The Pet Ranch, while we were out of town. We sure
did miss him but he was in great hands and the time apart didn’t seem to faze
him. He settled right back into his
regular routine on Monday. Plus, he got
a brand new bone so that was pretty cool.
