MB Rides and Eats!: Last day in Denver.....

We woke this morning to another sunshiny Denver day! We moseyed down to the restaurant to meet Bill, Sue, and Ron for breakfast. They were already there waiting for us. The waitress came by to give us coffee and water and she called Ron "Brian"! I thought I may have just heard her wrong. She was quite chatty and fun and called Ron "Brian" about 5 more times! Bahahahaha! We all just went along with it! We opted for the breakfast buffet again since it was so yummy the day before. I didn't partake in the evil jalapeño-laden sausage gravy this time. No way! Poor Bill came back with some on his plate. (We don't call him "Just Plain Bill" for nothing!) I warned him! He took a bite anyway. His reaction? He reminded me of Tom Hanks in "Big" when he ate the caviar at the party! HAHAAHAAAAHAhaaaa!!!! The stuff was all over his bacon and potatoes so he had to scrap the whole plate and get a new one. He also made sure to have our waitress pass along to the chef that it was waaaay too spicy.

We formulated a riding plan over breakfast and our fun, chatty waitress gave us her input. We opted to head through Boulder and on into Estes Park. She told us that the Elk were close to their "bugling" days. They "bugle" during rut and we may get lucky enough to hear them! She also said they have the right of way on the roads. (Like I would challenge an Elk!). She said that you have to stop and let them cross. Like a magical crosswalk! No serving around them or you get a big fine!

So on we went! Estes Park was beautiful! It's home to the Stanley Hotel...from "The Shining". (I have not seen that movie! For real!) I even saw Elk for the first time ever!

The ride up and back was amazing! Great weather, too. Lots of motorcycles out and about! I snapped a few good shots!

After a beautiful day of riding we returned to the hotel to get cleaned up. We had plans to meet our friends Kelly and Jay for dinner! And Sue's high school pal was joining us too! We met up at a place called The Hornet.

PHENOMENAL food! Small world time.....Bill & Sue bought Kelly's family's house in Solon! And Kelly went to school with Sue's younger sister! And that night was the first time they met! Between all us gals it was like old Solon night! Tom & Jay talked cop stuff and swapped stories. Jay had some pretty crazy tales to tell. Unfortunately we had to call it an early night. We had to get back to the hotel with enough time to do laundry before going to bed!

We rode back to the hotel and gathered our dirty stuff. We hung out by the pool while the washing machine was doing it's thing. Check out this sign by the pool.....

BAHAHAHAAAAAAhahaaaa! Too funny! I can only imagined what happened to prompt them to put this up!

After doing 2 loads, Tom & I head back up in the elevator with arms full of folded clothes. A young guy gets on with us and eyes up what we're carrying. "Are you guys staying here long?" he asks! I can imagine that it looks like we're living in this hotel with all these folded clothes! We explained that we're on a motorcycle trip for over 2 weeks so we have to do laundry when we can!

I gotta apologize....I'm a day behind! We left Denver this morning and had an AMAZING ride through the Rockies and into Moab, Utah.