Like a Kid in a Candy Store

It’s always so great for us when Greg gets a holiday off, especially a 3-day weekend, because that means we get to spend more time together and go do something fun! We started off the day by sleeping in (one of our favorite things!) and then heading over to It’s a Grind to get some coffee for our “long” road trip up to Denver and Evergreen. ;) We first stopped in Denver and took a tour through the famous Hammond’s Candy Factory. We had first heard about the place while watching something on the Travel Channel one night last year, and then overheard some friends talking about how they had taken the tour, so we decided we’d add that to our list of things to do and see here in Colorado. It was pretty neat to watch how they made candy and to see that it was all homemade and done by hand. It made our mouths water just watching them make all those goodies! It sure looked like hard work too! After that, we headed up to Evergreen where we had planned to go ice skating. We had made plans way back in September (click here to re-visit the blog post) when we were in Evergreen to come back in the winter, but when we got there, we didn’t feel it was good skating ice. The weather has been amazingly warm lately so the ice was really kinda slushy in most areas. So we just “skated” around on our shoes and walked all over the ice. It was a neat experience as we had never done anything like that before! We ended the day with dinner at Maggiano's and a quick trip to the outlets at Castle Rock. Fun stuff!

This weekend sure went by fast for us. Friday night we entertained at our house. Saturday morning/afternoon we headed over to Biaggi’s to help Mom and Dad Kelly plan the Rehearsal Dinner menu and other such arrangements, and then spent the rest of the day running errands and watching movies. Sunday we spent time visiting our friends in the hospital who just had a baby (who is adorable, by the way), had lunch with friends, and then dinner at Mom and Dad Kelly’s. Then there was today - busy and fun-filled. This week is proving to be another crazy busy week as well, but that’s OK, it keeps us out of trouble. ;)