Sunday August 26, 2012

Breckenridge CO

2 miles driven, 2 miles walked

Leisurely morning and day!!  Woke up, read/ watched ESPN, weather channel, showered…..  went outside about 8:30 to get coffee and to check out the weekly Farmers Market which is in the plaza next to us.  Same lady at the coffee depot!  No almond milk (come on people!!) but it’s ok because she is so nice and she has such good stuff.  I got an au lait with skim (nice dark roast) and Bob got OJ and two little sausage rolls which were tasty!  We are going to make them and throw them in the freezer to be warmed up  for… whatever.   We walked over to the Farmers Market which was very short on farm and very long jewelry, clothes, tie-dye, hats, pottery…..  There was a guy selling fresh pasta who just made a road trip to drop his daughter off at USF and back so we compared routes.  Decided to make dinner in our little studio while watching football tonight.  So we got some of his garlic herb fettucini.   There were two *farmers* tables where we got heirloom tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, corn (peaches and cream cause it’s white and yellow; the woman said that it doesn’t even need to be boiled) and bell peppers. Oh and some luscious peaches.  We brought that back to the room and headed to the City Market in the car realizing once we got there that we could walk it.  Got chicken breasts, fresh basil, butter lettuce, sourdough bread, garlic, chicken broth, butter, olive oil, red wine vinegar, two different kinds of cake (guess who), Triscuits, havarti and pepper jack.  From home we brought a bottle of Chivas, a bottle of Absolut Pepper, jar of olives, salt and pepper and a case of wine.  And a good knife.

Dumped that off and walked to one of our favorite places for lunch: Kenosha.

They have a really nice deck, great food and lots of beverage choices — normal stuff and fun (and funny) mixed stuff.   We sat on the deck in sun/shade.  Perfect temperature — high ’60s, low ’70s.   Bob ordered a Lynchberg Lemonade (Jack Daniels, triple sec, sour and sprite. Seriously.) which he really liked; looked refreshing, like a weak ice tea.

I had a Lucky U IPA draught.  Bob ordered his usual (don’t laugh) center cut sirloin with baked potato and cole slaw; I had a cup of buffalo chili and salad with little grape tomatoes and balls of fresh mozzarella with a parmesan crisp.  Balsamic reduction and balsamic vinaigrette on the side.  Ate it all.  Bob almost did.  They use only Certified Angus beef and it is always cooked perfectly.  We walked back by way of some of our favorite stores.  Got a Columbia t-shirt on sale for $18….  Wandered back to the Hyatt where we turned on the 49ers-Denver game (I wore my 49ers sweatshirt all morning) and R E L A X E D.  Worked on our computers, emails, this little  endeavor, read.  All of a sudden it was 5:30!

Bob made a great pasta with garlic, bell peppers, chicken, olives, chicken broth, fresh corn.  I made salad with the rest of the peppers, cucumber, red onion and heirloom tomatoes.  Fresh basil on both.  We drank a bottle of chardonnay while making dinner and finished the Rosenblum Zin from Friday night — held up really well.

We watched the Jets and Panthers, cleaned up and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.