Snow! - Blogabond

Had a really nice time at Great Falls National Park, Virginia - amazing views of the waterfall.

Weather getting hotter! Helen thought she'd put suncream on the whole of her face - obviously not as she has a glow in the dark hairline! Excellent! Not a good look!

Barnaby enjoying his day out

Paul standing over Mather Gorge at Great Falls Park

High water marks!

Janice gave us a lift to the airport, and we arrived in Denver, Colorado on time (after a connecting flight in Charlotte, North Carolina). Helen realised travelling in short trousers and flip flops was a bad idea, brrrrr!!! Picked the hire car up and figured out driving on the wrong side of the road in the snow, and made it to the B+B in Silverthorne at about 11.30pm. Probably a really pretty drive through the Rockies as we're pretty high up where we're staying, but it was pitch black.

Mountain Vista B+B, Silverthorne

Would have arrived at the B+B a bit earlier but the directions said "turn right off the main road and then right again after one block". As we had no idea how far "one block" was and as the street names were all covered in snow it took a bit of driving around!
Colorado is 2 hours behind DC so 11.30pm felt like 1.30am so it was straight to bed!
We are staying in the "Liberty Room" which is everything red, white and blue, stars and stripes, and Uncle Sam! Not as bad as it sounds - it's quite cool really!

Liberty Room - Red, White and Blue all the way!

The room next to us is "Paris" so we can only assume it's full of can-can girls and garlic.

Arapahoe Basin

After breakfast this morning we were shown where the hot tub is - hurrah! That will come in handy very soon as we've just got back in from a day on the slopes.

Arapahoe Basin

Arapahoe Basin has to be the most chilled out ski area ever! There are three car parks - "early risers", "high noon", and "last chance". Those on "early risers" reverse their cars to the bottom of one of the slopes in an area called "the beach", set up camp, get out the bbq's and have a party!

BBQ's on the "beach"!!

As luck would have it the B+B is 5 minutes walk away from a big shopping outlet village! Well, it would be rude not to at least go and look wouldn't it.......!!

PS, Barnaby Bear is having a lovely time in case you're wondering!!!

Barnaby having a break from the slopes

Barnaby on his board

written by

helenandpaul on April 25, 2008 from Silverthorne, United States

from the travel blog: The good ol' US of A, and a bit of Mexico thrown in for good measure!

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