It's Simple: We Love Colorado

Park visited: Columbine Sports Park
City: Littleton, CO
Food of the day: Chang's Spicy Chicken @ P.F. Chang's
iPhone song of the day: "A Few Short Years" by Ty Herndon
Miles traveled: 25

Between the sunsets, the endless mountain ranges acting as a backdrop and the thin air creating extremely comfortable working conditions, it's easy to say that we are big fans of Colorado. Even our hotel is great, and in my opinion it ranks right up there with the best we've stayed in since Holiday Inn in Orlando. The Internet connection is fast (and actually accessible IN the rooms), the shower has great pressure, the pool/hot tub is functional and they let us stay in it late, free breakfast includes a waffle iron and they actually leave FOUR towels in the bathroom when they tidy up the room. I really think it's the first time (since Matt's arrival) that a hotel hasn't left a mere three towels. Oh how the little things are so significant.

After a twilight dip in the pool on Thursday night, we woke up refreshed and ready for action on Friday, as we made our way to Littleton for the South Jeffco Liberty Blast youth tournament. From the start, the kids were excited for our arrival, as an announcement of our stop was advertised on the tournament's web site during the registration process for all teams involved. There was even one coach who admitted that the sole reason for signing his team up for this particular tournament was due to the presence of the Baseball Youth Road Trip. Good stuff.

The work portion of the day wasn't bad, but we were a man short during the taking down of our area, since Kohrs had to drive to the Denver airport to pick up his lady friend. Despite his crappy Avis GPS device, they made it back safely, and brought an unexpected visitor. Clink's girlfriend Erica decided to surprise him and flew in to spend the weekend in Colorado....awwwww. He seemed heavily (yet very pleasantly) stunned.

Following our day at the fields, we went for a nice dinner at P.F. Chang's. Now THIS place knows how to do it right. The six of us enjoyed a nice meal and conversation, including my "bowl" of soup, which literally looked as if they had simply lifted the pot off the stove and brought it to the table. It even had a ladle in it!! Luckily we were able to get some smaller bowls and divide it out. But of course, I still got made fun of.

Tonight, I am once again enjoying a whole bed to myself, a privilege I have apparently taken WAY too much for granted during my years. And now, after a little Baseball Tonight and more feverish music downloading and adding on to my iTunes, I am off to sleep so that I can be ready for an early day tomorrow.

Oh, and Happy 50th Anniversary to my grandparents (Nonny & Poppy)! Thank you for continuing to shine as exemplary models of marriage and for always continuing to teach us all how to forever unconditionally love.

Tap the Rockies,
CMJ