We pulled into Aspen and although the snow is melting everywhere, the slopes were pretty groomed and the wealthy people were out. The airport was full of private jets with people from other states visiting Colorado. At the base of the mountain there was a champagne party at the Little Nell with music and people dancing and across the walkway a female bartender over at Zino (another bar) standing on the bar pouring Jack Daniels into customers mouths from above. Ah apres ski in Aspen! Lori and I obviously abstained.
Later in the day after skiing was wrapping up, Jag and Ty took off around town on their own while Lori and I visited 3 or 4 stops where I had meetings to line things up for the upcoming Food and Wine Festival in June. As I said before, Aspen is the only place where we’ll let the boys take off on their own. They know the town as well as any local and I think the clerks at Carl’s Pharmacy (the local 5 and dime) and Asi (their favorite Japanese restaurant) know them both by name! After that we headed over to Billie and Greg’s for some dinner.
Billie had given us her condo to stay in which was a nice 3 story place right in town but we decided on a whim, after dinner, (since I finished up my Food and Wine appointments,) to just jump in the car and drive down the hill to home. We left around 9:20pm and pulled into home at 12:20am. A long drive but good to be home so we can today continue the big purge.
We’ll head back up for skiing probably tomorrow after hopefully transforming both boys rooms today. We have a mad master plan on the house that culminates with carpet going in the basement in a week or so and my friend Harry arriving from California around April 3rd to put the finishing touches on things that need to be fixed up around here.
We slept in late (for us) to 8:20 and I just picked up some McDonalds for the boys and coffee for us. Mojo thought we had left him so when we walked in at 12:20am, he had just eaten a pillow and had stuffing everywhere! He knew he was busted and had his tail between his legs when Lori opened the door. He was mad to be left alone but surprised when we walked in, hopefully he’ll learn his lesson or otherwise we’re breaking the crate back out.
That’s it, time to purge, God Bless