Memorial Day Weekend 2013

We spent Memorial Day weekend packing up our apartment and camping in the mountains.  Friday night we decided to bike to dinner.  It was a beautiful night in the 80s and we opted for a Mexican restaurant about 1 mile away.  We had never been to Lime before but their large patio was tempting on such a nice night. The next day I somehow realized that I drank too much the night before and opted out of yoga sculpt that morning.  Apparently a large margarita and 3 beers over 6 hours is too much for me to handle. I'm getting old.  It was probably for the best because we ended up packing about 10 boxes.  We're probably half way done with packing at this point.  I would like to pack up more stuff, but there is seriously no room to store the boxes!

Sunday we drove to Buena Vista, which is about 2.5 hours away.  It is a beautiful drive and actually very flat the last hour.

A friend of Matt's from college was staying at a friends cabin for the weekend and he invited us.  We ended up camping in their backyard for the night.  There were probably 20 people or so staying the weekend in the house, tents, cars, etc.  We tried a new hike, Ptarmigan Lake, about 15 min west of Buena Vista up Cottonwood Pass.

We got there around 11:00 in the morning and were shocked that we were the only ones in the 10 car parking lot!

We quickly realized it was so empty because there was 2 feet of snow....

Some spots didn't have much snow...

And in other spots we would sink and get stuck.

We turned around at about halfway in because we lost the trail and couldn't figure out where to go.  The trail was so snowpacked we couldn't see the trail and shoes were drenched and causing our toes to go numb.  Despite the snow, I was still in shorts and a tshirt since it was 75!

We headed back to the cabin and had some drinks in the sunshine.  Beautiful day!

We got up at 6:30 the next morning and packed up to make our way back to Denver.  Random weekend, but fun.  This week is full of packing and moving!! With a FOMR (Film on the Rocks - Red Rocks) tomorrow night! Back to the Future!