Matt, Kyle, Bow and I all flew into Denver to celebrate New Year’s Eve.  We arrived on a frigid cold night!!!  When I landed, it was -9 Farenheit (that’s -23 for my Celsius friends) — and a couple hours later, it was -12 (-24) when Matt shivered in.

Thank goodness it warmed up to the mid-20’s (around -5 Celsius) for our New Year’s Eve of wandering to a sports bar, watching football all day and then heading off to a Colorado Avalanche hockey game.  Awesome game — with the Avalanche poking one in in the last seconds of sudden death OT for the win!  Than back out into the brisk evening to celebrate midnight.

All football games – all day long

Colorado Avalanche clinch in sudden death OT

Way warmer in here than it is outside!!

Happy New Year! (wine glasses as the bar ran out of champagne flutes….)

Matt had to head back to California later on New Year’s Day to make it back in time for baseball practice.  (Good thing, too, since both his teams got taken out of the National Championship Game and I can’t imagine he was much fun to be around after that!)

Kyle and Bow and I then headed for Fort Carson, about 1.5 hours from Denver — when there’s no snowstorm….  About 3 hours later, through dark and snow(!) we were there and safe.  On Friday, i got a tour of the base, including the PX (Post Exchange) which is the equivalent of an on-base shopping mall that has pretty much everything, including our afternoon Starbuck’s fix!

Touring around the base

The Post Exchange – with an amazing Colorado Rockies backdrop!

The Post Exchange

Great diner in Colorado Springs

Then we hung out for more football and some amazing home-made enchiladas and salsa (thanks, Chef Bow!).

Great…. wonderful…. relaxing week with the people I love most 🙂