To Wine Country We Go!

In the fall of 2018, it was time to plan another trip to Colorado wine country. After (sort of) planning a weekend getaway with friends, we decided we needed to make it an annual event. And this time, Bryan took a Saturday off of work so we could go out with our friends and not by ourselves.

There were six of us again this time. Julie and Kyle, Jonathan and Katie, and Bryan and I. We got up early Saturday morning and took the puppies to daycare, before picking up Jonathan and Katie and heading west. Each of us had our own bikes, and luckily, Jonathan had a bike rack that could hold all four. Once again, we rolled into town and parked at the Wine Country Inn, where we would be staying for the night. When we arrived, we had beat Julie and Kyle by a few minutes, so rode our bikes over to Grande River to do our first tasting.

While at the tasting, Julie and Kyle had arrived and met us, so we were all able to toast away and then head downtown for lunch. We went to a new spot for lunch called 357 Grill and while we sat there, we noticed they have karaoke on Saturday nights! Well we had made our plans for later....more to come on that.

After lunch we started the day and hit the usual spots: DeBeque Canyon, Plum Creek, Maison la belle Vie and a great place Bryan and I hadn't been before, Red Fox Cellars. At about six, Red Fox closed down and sent us home, so we made our way back to the hotel, freshened up and then back downtown for dinner and more drinks. First up was the brewery and then down to main street for karaoke! We walked in at about 9:15 (karaoke was to start at 9) and no one was in there....it threw us off for sure. We saw the karaoke screen, but everyone looked at us like we didn't belong. Ha! Maybe we didn't! We had come from another bar where we had all got a solo cup filled with water. Not thinking about it, someone brought the cup inside with them and the bar managers were NOT okay with this. They didn't even take the time to confirm that it was actually water - just kicked us out and told us not to come back. To say we were ticked and would not be going back to that place anytime soon? Understatement.

So we went next door, where they thought we actually had come from, and had some drinks, enjoyed our night and made fun of the fact that we got kicked out of a bar for water. First time for everything!

Glenwood Canyon

As always, it was a rowdy day and night, but an incredibly fun one! The next morning, we packed up our gear and headed home. There was still bad weather that was hitting the mountains on Sunday, that actually shut down I-70 for a bit. That gave us the perfect reason to stop in Idaho Springs and eat at the infamous BeauJo's pizza. The perfect amount of time to wait out the road closure, and end our fun weekend getaway!