Snowshoeing Weekend

I can’t even being to tell you how wonderful Keystone was this weekend!!  Our condo was absolutely amazing (and I think it was bigger than our apartment!), the weather was bright and sunny, and we basically had the entire snowshoeing trail to ourselves.

We got to our condo late Thursday night – not too shabby of a place if you ask me .

Friday morning I started off with some coffee and overnight oats I packed before we left (topped with Kashi cereal and a packet of Justin’s Honey Peanut Butter:

The snowshoeing trail was a good 30-40 degrees the entire day!  I didn’t even have gloves on for most of it.

Me: “Hooray it’s time for lunch!!!”

Scott”: “OMG I can’t MOVE!! Everything hurts!!!”

Hot cocoa and PBJs

We totaled about 4.5 hours of snowshoeing, and then headed back to rest up and cook up a nice dinner .  A lean cut of steak, potatoes, and broccoli (for me lol).  Paired with a bottle of wine .

 

Our anniversary isn’t even until tomorrow, but it was definitely worth getting an early start to the weekend and beating all the traffic/skiers up and down the mountain.  Plus, now we have another two days to celebrate .  I don’t think we’re doing much more (we spent enough money on the condo and everything), but dinner and a movie, looking at more houses, and just relaxing sounds per-fect!

 

Have a great Saturday!!

Fresh Powder and Ice Sculptures

So to make use of the LAST 2 DAYS of Christmas vacation, we crammed a few events in since last night.  We went to Denver with Tom and Brittany to check out Zoo Lights, and to grab dinner at one of the ONLY restaurants open on New Year’s Day: Smash Burger. I ordered Veggie Frites (flash fried asparagus and carrots) and a Black Bean Burger on a multi grain bun.

Lol, the veggie frites were actually the most disgusting thing I’ve tasted! I only ate a few just to try them, but they were eeeeexxxxtra slimy and SUPER soggy.  Not to mention that they might have been just sitting around for a few days hours.  The Black Bean Burger was just okay – the patty was about twice the size of the bun, so I cut around the edges and left half of that too.  Overall taste?  Definitely not worth going back for another…

Tom and Brittany liked their smash chicken and smashburger a lot better! (onion rings and regular fries tasted better than the veggie frites too).  I’ve got no pictures of Zoo lights either because I was SO cold my toes and fingers were hurting! I never bothered to get out my camera .  Zoo lights was pretty darn amazing however – check out the site if you want to see the lights!

Since today is the last hoorah before work starts up again, Scott and I got up at the crack of dawn to break in our new Snowshoeing gear he got us for Christmas.  I packed a rather hefty portion of overnight oats for the road too

(it’s WAY to early for this…)

Yup, we started out at around 8:45am, and it was THAT freaking cold out!!!  However, when you bundle up as much as we did you really couldn’t feel anything (no wind thank goodness)

I have no idea how this thing got there (it’s not a waterfall), but somewhere in the hike we got to this MASSIVE ice block

Super steep hill we fell/rolled down…. our paths say it all!

Fuel time!

Now lunch time! WW PB&J Bagel with wheat germ… and some hot chocolate I packed up some baby carrots (*Smacks head*)… but they completely FROZE by lunch time.

You could see all the snow blowing right off the peaks!

Warmest I’ve ever been in the snow .  3 shirts, 3 pairs of socks, 3 layers of pants, and a face mask.  Epic win!

Scott swears I’m in there somewhere…

5 hour trek through fresh powder = 2 Ibuprofen and a nap in the car

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going to bed EARLY tonight

Back to work and back to normal life tomorrow (yay!).