This past weekend we visited Denver Colorado for an ABA conference that Susan was attending. For the first time I stayed in a Ritz Carllton hotel. The room was large, but not overly impressive and the decorum was nice but again nothing that shocked and awed me. However, the gym was 3 stories of the hotel, included a rock climbing wall, full court basketball court, whirlpool, and state of the art everything.
We visited Josh and Sharon, lawyer friends from D.C. who recently moved to Denver. Thursday night we met them for dinner along with some of their other friends who happened to be in town visiting. It drizzled Thursday, snowed and rained Friday, and was partially overcast on Saturday. So much for the second sunniest city in America.
Friday I worked while Susan attended meetings and then we went out for Sushi that night. Saturday we met up with Sharon (Josh was at his law firms weekend retreat in Sante Fe). We took a clog wheel train up Pike’s Peak. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to the peak because snow had drifted onto the track, but we did make to about 12,000 feet above sea level.
The most interesting part of the trip was Saturday night when we visited Colorado’s oldest restaurant, the Buckhorn Exchange. Live animals, 1,700 of them to be exact, peer at you from the walls. Susan and Sharon were a little spooked out. Susan feared the hairs from the antelope above our table might fall into her food 🙂
While waiting to be seated we listened to cowboys sing songs about cats, the West, and heard some yodeling. At dinner we ate alligator tail, elk, buffalo, and home made ranch dressing. Yumm, yumm delicious. Definitely a man’s man’s restaurant and a must visit for any meat lover.
