Wednesday September 23, 2015
40 miles driven, 5 miles walked on hike and around town
Woke up to the news that Yogi Berra died and then laughed ourselves sick reading all his ‘isms. “These hotel towels are so thick, I can’t zip up my suitcase” and “Always attend your friends’ funerals so they will come to yours” were two particular favorites. RIP, Yogi, one of the greatest of the greats.
We packed up our computers and walked down to the coffee house to work for a couple of hours. Clear and 39* at 7:30ish.
We went to the french bakery for a croissant for Bob and a sandwich to split for lunch on our picnic/hike. We got a Le Mozzarella Plus: proscuitto, romaine, mozzarella, pesto on a french baguette. Plus a couple of bags of Boulder salt and pepper potato chips.
We drove to the Montgomery Reservoir and mine and hiked about a mile back. I keep using the same adjectives but it’s beautiful! The last photos are the views from our picnic spot.
Got back to Breck about 2p and spent a couple of hours on email, etc. Showered, dressed up (ha! jeans, clean shirts, cashmere sweater….) and set out. Got two seats at the end of the bar at Modis and ordered a Bourbon Smash for Bob (Bourbon, lime, mint, sugar and fresh seasonal fruit muddled) and a Manhattan (Bulleit rye, Carpano Antica and Angustura Bitters) for me.
Both so different, so good. We tend to branch out here a bit from our ‘same old’. It is so much fun to talk to and watch the bartenders make different drinks.
We were figuring out our dinner options and had a glass of wine to take advantage of happy hour prices. Bob supported Lake County with Vigillance Lake County Cimarron (Zin, Syrah, Petit Syrah, Caberanet) and I had the Matchbook Tinto Rey Red (Tempranillo, Syrah). Both were good after they opened up a bit, especially the Vigillance.
We decided to have dinner at Giampiertro’s. My favorite thing is their white clam pizza which is a special and only comes in one size (LARGE) for $21 but I always order it and just eat the leftover slices as much as I can in the days following Sadly, that special night is Monday so we missed it. No amount of begging works. So I ordered the linguini vongole and arugula salad and Bob ordered the chicken parmesan and caprese salad. There were more than a dozen whole, fresh clams which I devoured and ended up taking most of the pasta home — we will probably make dinner in the condo tomorrow. We also had a glass of Italian Barolo. So. Damn. Good. Place is always packed with eat-in people and lines for take-out orders. Walked back looking in stores and bought some cookies from the awesome cookie place (peanut butter, chocolate chip and oatmeal cranberry).
Lovely evening with showers on the horizon but clear above us.
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