courtney rebecca

To celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary, Jason and I took a little weekend getaway down to Colorado Springs at the beginning of August. Neither of us had been, so it was fun to get to be tourists together! On Thursday night we dropped Kingsley off with his friend Charlie and drove down to the Springs. We had a bit of trouble getting checked in, but once we had the right room, it was great! We went to dinner at a little French place that I saw on Yelp and it was amazing! It couldn't have been a better start to our weekend away. We also got some Black Forest cake from a bakery there, since that was the flavor of Jason's groom's cake. Friday morning we got up and drove to Manitou Springs to get on the cog railway for Pikes Peak! We rode the railway up the mountain and it was so cool. We could watch out the window the whole way. It took about an hour and a half to get up there. We got to stay at the top and take pictures for about 45 minutes, then we rode back down. ...

My best friend from high school is the lovely Lauren. Growing up, we were so close that her mom was like my second mom! I started calling her Mom #2 at some point, and it stuck. Mom #2 happens to be a travel agent. And she happened to hear about someone that had won two nights in Breckenridge and couldn't use the voucher. And my wonderful Mom #2 volunteered us to use it! The first weekend of Spring Break at the end of March (I know, this is a delayed reaction), we drove up to Breckenridge and stayed at the Beaver Run Resort in a one bedroom suite. Oh man. This place was so nice!! I couldn't believe we were getting to stay there for free. The view from our room We don't ski or snowboard, so our plan for the weekend was just to explore the town and relax. We were successful! We ate so much good food. Empire Burger, a French bakery, a coffee shop, an amazing steak dinner at the resort that was FREE, and delicious donuts on the way out of town. We seriously had amaz...