Honeymoon, Part 3

Well, this is it for now with the Honeymoon photos! Our camera battery died halfway up the mountain on Thursday of our Honeymoon and I have been unable to locate the charger. We bought a disposable camera, but according to the lady at Walgreens, it will be 2 weeks before we get those back! I'll post them later as soon as I get them.
On Thursday, we headed into Rocky Mountain National Park and drove to the top on Trail Ridge Road. The scenery was beautiful. God's creation is amazing! We stopped several times along the way to take it all in. We saw several elk and marmots (I'd never seen them before, but they look like beavers!) but never saw any big horned sheep. Jason was a little disappointed about that! Apparently we just missed them when we stopped here, below:

We climbed up here for a photo opportunity. It was scary climbing back down!

The camera died right about here...just as soon as Jason stuck his bare feet in the snow! I'm bummed I can't post baseball game pictures but I will get to it later.

Honeymoon, Part 2 - The Haunted Hotel and other sites!

Wednesday morning, we set off "early" (9:00 AM) on a hike. It was kind of funny, you could tell we were amateurs at hiking because we actually stopped at Starbucks on our way to the trail and headed up the mountain with our coffee cups in hand. I'm sure we looked like major tourists to the real hikers that passed us! We didn't make it very far. Not because of the coffee, but because someone had a hard time with the thin air. Okay, it was me. I felt like a major wimp, but my husband was patient with me!

Gorgeous blue skies!

I am still breathing at this point.Beaver Creek

Up the mountainDown the mountainView from the "top" - or the top according to us!I get the feeling we are being followed

A rewarding lunch at Blue Moose Pizza - their cheesy garlic bread was the best!
Estes Park, CO
The Stanley Hotel and Rocky Mountain National Park
Thursday morning we headed to Estes Park to spend a night at the famed Stanley Hotel. Most of you know that I was a little freaked out at the prospect of staying in a "haunted" hotel. To get myself good and scared, we took a ghost tour, which Jason labeled as "hogwash"...but it was fun! The hotel is very beautiful and yet creepy at the same time!

Hey, you guys, get out of our picture.

Nestled amongst the Rockies

Front of the hotel including a very comfortable front porch complete with rocking chairs

You may recognize this from the movie Dumb and Dumber...this is where Jim Carrey pulled up his Lamborghini and started passing out $100 bills! Actually, all of the outdoor hotel scenes were filmed here at the Stanley.

Lobby

Beautiful split staircase

The Stanley Steamer

According to our guide, a little girl ghost "Katie" lives here in this tunnel!

The famous Stephen King room - where he stayed and got his inspiration for "The Shining"...Mrs. Wilson is the ghost that lives here. Apparently she likes to unpack for you and put your things away. If I could just get her to repack my things, I would be fine with a ghost like that!
The staircase on the way up to the scary fourth floor. Apparently those little circles of light on my pictures are "ghostly orbs"...now I am starting to agree with Jason!

The most haunted room at the hotel. Also the Bridal Suite. Ironic, huh?

The fourth floor hallway where the ghost children play between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 AM. According to our guide, they get pretty rowdy.

That's enough of those pictures.
The pool is not haunted. But it is gorgeous!

Our room at the Stanley. Nothing special, and definitely overpriced - I'll just leave it at that! We still had a great time here, and it was worth the experience.

Coming up next are pics from Rocky Mountain National Park and the Rockies game in Denver!

Honeymoon, Part 1 - Sunday thru Tuesday

We started off from Dubuque on Sunday afternoon, headed to Vail, CO in the good ol' Malibu. We stopped in Lincoln, NE on Sunday night at the "Cornhusker Marriott"...we were a bit nervous about this one, but it turned out to be a wonderful hotel. We were even upgraded to suite due to our "honeymoon status" AND the desk clerk lowered our rate! Score!

The next day we loaded up and headed to Vail.

"I thought the Rocky Mountains would be a little rockier..." (Harry, Dumb and Dumber)

That's better...

We actually stayed in Beaver Creek, about 10 miles from Vail. This was a great resort, full of restaurants, shopping, and outdoor activities, even ice skating! Here's a shot of downtown Beaver Creek, including a picture of The Dusty Boot, where we enjoyed a burger our first night in Colorado.

Our beautiful hotel

Our room (sorry if these photos are boring, I just thought our room was awesome!)

Breakfast at Joe's Deli in Vail Sunset in Colorado from the view of the car!

Have you ever seen a more beautiful site?

Jason in Vail - we went shopping on the one day it rained

Tuesday night, we enjoyed a wonderful dinner at The Wildflower in Vail thanks to our friends Ken and Jan Murray! I had filet mignon and Jason had salmon. Delicious!

Chocolate Creme Brulee!! It was amazing! (Cass - these photos are for you! Can you recreate this for me? :)) Left to right - semi sweet, bittersweet, dark chocolateJason's White Chocolate Bavarian...mmmmm!

Isn't this town just too cute?

We actually went back to The Wildflower the next night because we didn't use up all of our gift card - I got creme brulee again! (and cappuccino, of course)

I have more pics - I'll keep them coming as long as you are not sick of me!!