Tracey:
Breakfast at Lucille’s even surpassed yesterday’s - beignets and this incredibly decadent rice pudding made with sticky rice and cream and topped with raspberry sauce and currants, among other things. Then we headed across town to Whole Foods to get a few supplies and while we were there ran into someone we knew - the daughter of some folks we hang out with in Maine every summer (we knew she lived in CO, but not Boulder and had no idea she worked at WF). She was as pleasantly surprised by the small world thing as we were and sent us off with a complimentary bag of cookies.
Breakfast at Lucille’s even surpassed yesterday’s - beignets and this incredibly decadent rice pudding made with sticky rice and cream and topped with raspberry sauce and currants, among other things. Then we headed across town to Whole Foods to get a few supplies and while we were there ran into someone we knew - the daughter of some folks we hang out with in Maine every summer (we knew she lived in CO, but not Boulder and had no idea she worked at WF). She was as pleasantly surprised by the small world thing as we were and sent us off with a complimentary bag of cookies.
Then we drove to the little hippie town of Nederland, took a quick tour, then headed on up to Estes Park (elev. 7,500 feet) via the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway; the town borders the northeast section of Rocky Mountain National Park. The town is actually better than the guide books led us to believe - there’s a nice little downtown area with its share of tacky little tourist shops (which makes us feel like we’re at the beach, what with the taffy and kettle corn and gaudy key chains) but also nicer shops and cafes and a gorgeous backdrop every way you look.
Since it was too late in the day to do much in the way of hiking, we detoured over to Fort Collins, home of Colorado State, to see what that had to offer. The ride was the best part, along the scenic Big Thompson River and cutting through a steep canyon, but Fort Collins was lots of retail and development (though Old Town had its charms).
