Bates Hotel

No trip to the Denver area should be without a tour through the Coors Brewery. So off we went. You get a beer at the tasting room in the middle of the tour and at the end you get to sample three more beer. During the bus ride to the brewery we got a short tour through the city of Bolder and were informed we could leave our vehicles parked at their parking lot and explore Bolder. So we did. We had dinner at a Cantina. Guess who else was there…. The 80s! There was a woman sitting at a table with the hairstyle of Mike Score the lead singer from a Flock of Seagulls. Her friends all looked like poster children for hairstyles of the 80s.

Shortly after we were served our food a waiter threw a knife at me. He stumbled over something and a plate with a knife on it went flying with the knife coming to rest on the floor not far from my foot. I knew right then and there we were in the right place, Mexican food, margaritas, and knives. I ordered pumpkin cheesecake with a cinnamon caramel sauce and vanilla cognac for dessert. It was such a huge piece and I was full so I took half of it home with us. John, our waiter took it away and put it in a box. Lady Tamara www.LairdOfLochaber.com had the best breakfast ever…..coffee and pumpkin cheesecake….mmmmm

We decided to go to Georgetown for the weekend. Tony called a hotel from his work phone which is blocked at the carrier.  No one should be able to call him back. The rate they quoted him was a little high so he thanked them and rang off. About 5 minutes later his phone rang, it was the hotel calling him back to give him a cheaper rate. Our question is how did they get his number? We decided since we were armed and this was an adventure we would stay at what we have affectionately dubbed The Bates Motel.

Before we left for Georgetown we headed back to Bolder to visit the grave site of Buffalo Bill Cody. It was at the top of a mountain. Him and his wife are both buried there.

There we were tootling through Georgetown when we spy deer in the front yard of a house. There was a mama and 2 babies and a couple other doe munching away in the front yard. This is in town, downtown not on the edges of suburbia. It reminded me of the donkeys that roam through Cripple Creek.  The doe stopped and gazed at us while I took a photo. They did not run away or take flinch they just watched us watch them.

I know most of you have been wondering where Horatio has been for the past several days as have I. We spotted him in Denver and then as we were driving to Georgetown he was stopping for gas in Idaho Springs. We waved he looked up and over his sunglasses at us and gave us the nod.

What else lies ahead?