6 years (really?!)

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary.  Since Shannon has been getting a little cabin fever, wanting to get out of the house and I had a few days off from work last week we decided to head to Breckenridge for a couple of days.  It was kind of a last minute decision and our options were pretty limited to about a 2-3 hour radius because of the little one.  We also tried to pick a place that we had not been to before, but it had to have a "nice, little, walkable downtown" since that was going to be our main activity.  A lot of our friends head up to Breck for skiing and love it in the winter so we thought that we'd try it in the summer time.

We dropped Brady off at "camp" on Tuesday morning and headed up to the mountains that afternoon.  The drive along I-70 was the easiest that we have ever had; I strongly recommend heading to the mountains mid-week in an off peak time.  We didn't do too much the first night besides drive around Summit county and get acquainted with the area.  We topped off the night with a trip to Breckenridge Brewery for dinner, even though there is another one in downtown Denver.  On Wednesday we tried to sleep in as much as Grant would let us before we hit the downtown scene.  There are a lot of quaint stores along downtown scattered in between all of the T-shirt shops and ski and bike rental stores.  After a few hours of walking around we decided to drive up to Silverthorne to the outlet shops, which is close to Lake Dillon.  That night we ordered room service (something we haven't done since the morning after we got married) and Shannon spent some time soaking in the jetted tub that was in our room.  Thursday morning we slept in again and took the long way home along Highway 285 which took us through Bailey and the famous Coney Island stand.  

Even though we didn't do as much stuff or stay as long as we used to on our getaways, it was exactly what we needed.  It was exciting to think about all the things that we can do on our future vacations when Grant gets older.