World Traveler: Colorado Edition - Part 2

Sunday morning we woke up at went to Lucile's for breakfast and met the Lafitte's. Its a cajun restaurant that is open only for breakfast and lunch and it is amazing. Everything on the menu looks incredible.  It was all fresh and beautiful and just incredible.  Not to mention that the restaurant itself is the cutest thing you'll ever see !  I had a cheese omelet that came with a giant biscuit and cheese grits.  I could eat that meal every day. Forever. And always.

My cafe au lait !

adding more sugar... because there wasn't enough !

My omelet, cheese grits and biscuit.  All things good.

I was sad to leave Lucile's.  I wanted to stay there forever.  Roll around in a pool of cheese grits... 

ALAS, life goes on. With my full, fat belly in tow we headed off to Golden for Geocaching!
 If you've never been Geocaching before, its amazing and you should get on it !  Anyway, Golden is a super cute suburb of Denver nestled in a valley.  I couldn't handle the cute.

outside a candle store

The main street in Golden, welcoming me with a HOWDY!

Kyr digging through the loot bag from our first cache

Then we were on to our second one.  It was tucked into the underside of a picnic table, Stephanie found it!

Kyr opening our second cache, it was a lot smaller and harder to find !

signing the scroll

Looking for cache #3

Cache #3 turned out to be a little tricky...aka we gave up.  I don't think anything was really there!

Jason taking out his anger...

After cache #3 we headed back to the car then drove up Lookout Mtn. and stopped at a rest point. Steph and I attempted to find a cache but the ice and arctic winds drove us a way before we were successful.

retreating from cache attempt #4

 That night, Adge and I went to mass with her roommates then had dinner with them back at their house.  Her roommate made us pupusas which were awesome!


Monday-

Kyr was still sick so we let her be.  Adge had an appointment in downtown Denver, so while she was there I walked around.  I went to the Cathedral for a while and prayed and took in its beauty.  I did seem to forget to take a picture though...

The capitol

and the other side

 When Adge was done we went to lunch at an Irish pub named Katie Mullin's.  It was adorable and really made me feel like I was in Ireland.  I naturally had fish and chips.

After lunch we went up to the Augustine Institute for communion service at 3:30.  The school is housed on the top floor of a building that used to be a convent (i think).  I loved it . The building is old and really cool. The light wood floors made it feel like it was the school from Step Up...

The whole AI!

Especially this room...

The view when you walk outside, so stinking beautiful!

Me, beholding the school!

Adge and I went to hang out with her friend, Tamara, who turned out to be an old friend from college of one of my best friends.  Small, Catholic world moment!

For dinner we went to the cute shopping center where out Corner Bakery  adventure was and met Tyler and Steph for pizza at Mellow Mushroom!  I freaked out at how cute it was with the twinkle lights everywhere.  There was also a really cool outdoor fireplace.  I love it.

 Dinner was wonderful and the company was better.  We sat and talked for a while before it was time to roll out. Bed time comes early for people with responsibility!

Later that night I said my goodbyes to Adge since she had work the next morning waaaaay before I would be awake !


Tuesday-

IT WAS SNOWING!!!!!! I was so excited that we had a little snow while I was in CO.


Kyr was feeling much better today (whew! & yay!) so we headed to downtown Littleton to walk around the shops since they were open and have lunch.  We had hot chocolate at a really cute shop named Chocolate Therapy (my homeland) and then lunch at Merle's.  Everything was great and all the boutiques are adorable and make you want to be really fashionable. 

Alas, the time passed and before we knew it we needed to head off to the airport.  We had a nice 45 minutes en route to say our goodbyes though.  I'm so happy I got to go visit everyone in Colorado and have such a great time with them.  Its crazy that we're done with college and spread across the country now.  I still refuse to believe we are growing up.