Colorado | Task Twenty-Four Hours Route Trip

When nosotros woke upwards terminal Sabbatum forenoon the temperature was predicted to last 100 degrees that day.  We had idea well-nigh going away for the weekend, but hadn't made whatever plans - we'd been discouraged past times high temperatures everywhere inside driving distance.  

As I discussed my frustrations alongside Mike he said, what are you lot looking for?  I said, a actually overnice hotel, a spa together with cool, refreshing weather condition - someplace that feels "away from it all."  

We looked at the national weather condition map together with determined the closest cool temps were inwards Colorado... a measly 10 hours away.  Living inwards New England for brief stint spoiled our impulsive traveling spirit - alongside mountains, beaches, big cities together with countryside inside an threescore minutes or two.

Mike got on the band alongside Marriott rewards together with past times noon the 3 of us were packed inwards the motorcar Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch bound. 

The scenery on the means was simple, together with then serene.  Above, grass-fed beef. 

Classic Kansas landscape, windmill together with all.   You tin literally encounter for miles together with miles.  That tempest inwards the distance is likely 20(?) miles away.  

 The temperature had dropped thirty degrees past times the fourth dimension nosotros had crossed the state.  As nosotros were crossing into Colorado, the pelting brought alongside it a cozy, Fall feeling. 

The outset glimpse of the mountains... 3 to a greater extent than hours to go.

Emma was such a trooper.  After the long drive, nosotros reached The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch at 10pm together with were welcomed into the most cozy together with stunning mount lodge.  Here, Emma together with Mike snuggle past times the burn downwardly earlier nosotros checked in.

This is i of the hotel's photo, but I wanted to demo you lot simply how stunning it was.  This was my favorite room of the hotel (that Emma was lounging inwards in the previous photo) - it could've come upwards correct out of a Ralph Lauren photograph shoot. 

Her favorite business office was the black chocolates on her pillow.

She settled inwards simply fine - I mean value she's singing "I Think I'm Gonna Like it Here" from Annie.

This is a stance of the hotel inwards the daylight.  It was then fun to brand it at night, driving through the black mountains, because when nosotros woke upwards inwards the forenoon it was similar nosotros were transported.  It felt simply similar when nosotros drove through Tuscany inwards the middle of the nighttime on our honeymoon together with woke upwards to the most stunning countryside stance exterior of our room inwards the morning.

It was i of THE most stunning hotels I've always stayed in.  It is tucked away past times itself from all of the other resorts inwards the Vail-Beaver Creek area.  It was absolutely perfect.

In the morning, nosotros laid off for Piney River Ranch for fishing, hiking, etc. - all of the materials you lot produce inwards the mountains.



After eleven miles on a gravel mount road.

Picturesque.

Waiting for our boat.

While nosotros waited, Emma visited alongside the horsies... who she didn't similar nearly equally much inwards somebody equally she idea she would.

Getting ready for the hike upwards to the falls.

I didn't lug my photographic television camera on the hike, but I did direct maintain simply about instagram photos (above) - you lot tin encounter all, here. 

We made it dorsum to the hotel inwards fourth dimension for a lilliputian afternoon nap (for Emma) together with trip to the spa for me.  This is a hotel photograph - I didn't pick out my photographic television camera alongside me, obviously.


 The rainbow appeared simply equally I was coming dorsum to the room.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rare identify unit of measurement photograph earlier our dinner "date."

Here is simply about other stance of my favorite room.  Makes me mean value well-nigh what rustic elements I desire to add together to our solid - particularly this fourth dimension of year.  So cozy.

Would love a big hearth room similar this... but thirty human foot ceilings aren't inwards our nigh future!

Emma arranging her napkin at Spago... didn't terminal long!




Once the firepit was lit - she alone wanted "Marsh Marsh"... s'mores.

It is then slow to settle into our comfortable lilliputian life together with simply become alongside the flow, but it was then neat to last out exploring again.  We all came dorsum refreshed together with exhausted at the same time.  Such a proficient feeling to direct maintain gotten out in that location together with follow our whimsy.  

Now I'm completely inwards Fall fashion (weather, delight pick out handgrip of up!) together with ready to instruct dorsum to business.  Emma is at her fist 24-hour interval of schoolhouse this forenoon afterward the half dozen calendar week summertime break.  I'm missing her this forenoon - together with am feeling a lilliputian lonely at dwelling solid without her buzzing around.  However, my to-do listing is a mile long.  Stay tuned for the side past times side pair of weeks equally a organize together with re-organize our house, ready our autumn favorites together with innovate novel Fall products to the store!

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