About 11am the truck arrived with 5 pallets of vino. We unloaded it fairly quickly and have it strewn all around the house. There it will sit until this weekend when I break it down and re-box it for distribution around the Country.
This morning we’re off to Aspen. I’m not sure what time we’ll get out of here but it should be before noon. Tonight we’ll be staying with our friends at their palacial home before checking in to our hotel tomorrow. This way we’re already up there for all the festivities on the 4th rather than driving. Lots to do before we go so time to get rolling. Here’s a comment from Annette about the oldest guy reading pass his bed time.
Annette says:
At least he is reading (I read to 4am The Son, about Texas).
Now I don’t care who you are, you should not stay up until 4am reading missy! It’s just not good for your body clock.
Mom was downtown at the spa yesterday, with our friend who owns it, getting her nails done. The rest of the day was spent with my Mom trying to decide what to wear for the big party Friday night. Luckily my choices are limited to a sport coat or two so I don’t have this problem.
The boys played and played (what’s new) and then Ben spent the night. We managed to get them all asleep by 10pm which is pretty good. Today we’ll be going over Independence Pass again which saves us about 45 minutes to an hour. It’s only open in the summer as it’s real high like 12,000 feet. I promised the boys we’d stop at the old town of Independence which is now just a bunch of old cabins from the 1880’s but was a bustling town of over 30,000 people back then. They want to run down and explore it. It was snowing there June 16th when we came through last time so we didn’t spend much time there. The town was eventually wiped out by so many avalanches that the remaining residents made skis ands skied down to what is now Aspen. They have a couple of girls (that are interns) there every day to tell everyone about the history of the place. Fun for the boys.
Guess I’ll go, hope all’s well and everyone is ready for some hot dogs, baseball and apple pie. That’s as American as you can get. Hopefully where you live you won’t have to fly some foreign flag to be politically correct tomorrow! These days, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Take care and God Bless.