Weekend Fun

We took a much needed break from our house this weekend and just had fun. Friday night we went to Wicked. Dave hadn't seen it before but he knows and loves all the songs. It was great fun - he was sort of like a kid at Christmas.  :)

On Saturday we went to the Renaissance Festival. We had to go this weekend because it was buy one get one free entrance and that saved us $21. And really that's the only way to go. You can read my official review for work here. (That's my real reason I had to go. I mean come on, we're giving out prizes for a sweepstakes so those of us running the dealio probably need to try out some of the offerings - you know, to make sure they're fun, right? Right! btw, don't worry about leaving comments there. ;) )

 

 Twig the Fairy

 Great Balls of Fire show

Dave got to hobnob with the nobility (they liked his shirt!)

 

And he liked looking at the swords...

 

and horns 

(so he can call his wife when he needs her.  Hmmm! He thinks we're in the Flintstones or something perhaps?)

The KamiKazi Fireflies had a cool show:

 Waiting for jousting to start...

 

  

Mostly the food was expensive (no surprise there) - the corn was delish but the gyro was eh.  

It was fun day - but quite hot.  We were used to all the rain and nice temperatures we've been having and this was the first hot day so it took us a little by surprise.  We needed more water and sunscreen. But we always need more sunscreen. As Justin says - we are the pastiest family ever.  ;) 

And with that we have a serious ton of work to do on the house before the family ice cream party here on Wednesday!

Frisco

I love the mountains and every year I intend on spending time there. And pretty much always it's the end of the summer and I realize with a start that we haven't even made it up the hill. When the end of June came around this year and I realized we hadn't gone anywhere or planned anything I decided we were going to sit down that night and put some mountain days on the calendar. We decided that we should explore Colorado by starting with day trips to mountain towns close by.

Our first stop was Dillon Reservoir and the town of Frisco.

We started at Dillon and learned our first lesson - make sure to check what's going on the weekend you're going up. This was the inaugural Frisco Triathalon so a lot of the roads were closed off to cars so that the cyclists could make their trek. Fortunately, we were able to park at Sapphire Trail and we walked around that short trail for awhile and enjoyed the views.

We had a picnic lunch and then we did some water color painting. :) I brought a tablet of paper and a box of Crayola watercolors and we painted the mountains. Silly? Maybe. But it was fun!

After that we went to explore Frisco. Neither of us felt like it was a town we could spend a whole day in but it had some fun things. They have a history museum that's well done. They've preserved several buildings and it's set in a really nice little park. We enjoyed that and enjoyed taking our time and just meandering through. 

Dave would have a hard time living in these houses since the ceilings are only about an inch above his head...

We also liked the Gatherhouse Glassblowing Studio.  They do demonstrations from 2-7pm three days a week. It was interesting to see them shape and create a beautiful vase. Too expensive to buy anything there but worth going and watching for awhile. :)

We didn't see anywhere we were too excited to try for dinner so we drove up to Breckenridge and ate there. And decided that Breck will definitely be on our Mountain list - it looks like a fun place to explore!

Frisco, CO

We came back totally sunburned (the dumbest thing is that we had sunscreen with us but we forgot to put it on! That would be the second lesson learned. Duh!) and tired but it was a fun day and so very nice to get away and not worry about a thing all day. 

What Colorado towns should be put on our list to explore in the future?