It has been a while since my last post! So sorry!
On December 10, Garrett and I left for our honeymoon in Breckenridge, Colorado. We were there for 6 days and loved every minute of it! We started making plans to move there as soon as we arrived!
We stayed at the Crystal Peak Lodge, a brand new residence that opened the summer of 2010. GORGEOUS! Crystal Peak is a group of private residences that usually does not rent rooms out. However, since it is a brand new property that has only 3 rooms left to buy, we were able to rent a room for the week. Our room was 1 bed, 2 bath, with a kitchen and living room. It was the perfect setting for a honeymoon.
Crystal Peak is on the base of Peak 7, which is full of blues so we would take the gondola over to One Ski Hill Place at the base of Peak 8 which was much more beginner/lower intermediate level friendly.
This was Garrett's first time to ski ever, so our whole plan was to take it easy. He was determined to teach himself to ski, which I warned him against. I took him down a green on our first run, which turns out had been upgraded to a blue...they just hadn't changed the map yet. Needless to say, after that first run Garrett walked straight to the lesson desk. After his afternoon lesson, he was good to go. We had a blast skiing for 3 days.
After skiing for 3 days, we needed to take a break and just hung out on the 4th day. On the 5th day, we went and took a 2 hour snow mobile tour. We went through trails which took us by old mine shafts and an old cabin which a miner lived in. Then we went to the continental divide. The continental divide is where all the water on one side goes to the Atlantic Ocean and the water on the other side goes to the Pacific. You had to be careful when you got off the snow mobile though, because if you step of the trail you would sink into snow at least 4 feet deep. I wish I had a picture of Garrett sinking into snow up to his chest!
I could not end this post without mentioning the food that we ate! We loved Main St. and were there every night. I can't even remember how many times we ate at Eric's, but I was obsessed! My other favorite place was The Motherloaded Tavern. We're talking Fried macaroni and cheese (which we ate and it was delicious), fried peanut butter and jelly (we did not eat that...had a cheeseburger instead), and make your own s'more, which you better believe I ate!
Our honeymoon was absolutely perfect! It was the perfect mix of activity (for Garrett) and relaxation (for me). We cannot wait to go back to Colorado and are even looking into going back this summer!
