We made it to Aspen by 9:30 am or so after stopping in Leadville for breakfast. Diane had booked the best table at Asie right on Main Street for the parade. We walked over with her ahead of Greg and Billie who were 30 minutes or so behind us. The parade started right on time at 11am. First off is the procession of Harley’s roaring down the street followed by fire trucks, floats, cowboys on horses and anything else local and small town you could think of. One of the highlights is always the veterans walking in the parade. There are former soldiers from as far back as World War 1 up until now. Some of the older guys can’t walk the parade so they ride in old restored army vehicles. Everyone along the parade route always stands and claps for the veterans.
The boys of course stand out in the street as most vehicles are throwing candy or beads and this year, even nice sun hats! The fire engines also spray their hoses full of water on the crowd so naturally our kids get soaked, what fun.
Next up we all went to friends of Billie and Gregs condo a few blocks up town where another party was naturally going on. We knew lots of people including a few friends from Denver. Meanwhile the boys walked around town and ended up at Carl’s Pharmacy which has a great toy department. Aspen is one of the few places where you can let the kids go off and their own and feel good about it.
Finally around 3pm or so we all made it back to the house. Greg was showing us the theater and we ordered up some ribs from Hickory House which has really really good ribs! Soon it was getting to be evening and the fireworks were going to be going off over Aspen Mountain at 9:15. Greg and Billie went to a party and so did Diane while Lori, I and the boys went uptown. We stopped into L’Hosteria which is a great restaurant that we do business with and had some incredible salmon and sole. Jagger chowed down the salmon like he hadn’t eaten in weeks. We then walked outside, pulled some blankets and pillows out of the car and sat on the sidewalk waiting for the light show to begin. We had a perfect view and the fireworks were great! Afterwards we made it home and soon fell asleep. Billie, Greg and Diane were all still out partying away.
Today I’m not sure what we’re doing but I think we’re going to leave town this evening to beat the traffic. We’r’e back next week on Thursday for the big wedding and we’ll be in the St Regis for 3 nights. Hope all’s well, the weather’s beautiful and it’s about 80 degrees.
God Bless.
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