Denver

J and I took a quick mid week trip to Denver, Colorado for his birthday. He bought tickets to a concert at Red Rocks back in December. We have been looking forward to Denver for a while. Neither of us had ever spent any time there. We had the best time. Our flight out of Dallas was so early. C seemed to not want to go to sleep the night before we left so we both ended up staying up later than we had planned. Luckily our flight was super quick!

The drive from the Denver airport to downtown was pretty quick. There was so much to do and see just walking in the few blocks close to our hotel. J booked us a room at the Hotel Teatro. We got an upgrade to a suite which was a nice surprise! We had a beautiful room with a cool view of downtown Denver. We checked out the balcony briefly because it was chilly outside! The weather was such a nice change from all of the Texas heat. We quickly decided to get out of our room because the two sleep deprived new parents could have easily just curled up in that cozy bed!

As we were getting off the elevator Jason Isbell was getting on! It was so cool that we had flown there to see him play/sing and we were not only staying at the same hotel but actually talked to him! J was so excited. I think that was a pretty special moment for him.

There was a great little shopping square about a block from our hotel. There were quite a few shops but I think our favorite was Goorin Bros Hat Shop. I think between the two of us we tried on every single hat in the shop! After a couple of trips to the store we both ended up buying a hat. J got a mustard color and I chose a deep emerald green.

We just kept walking around trying to find some cool stuff to see. We had reservations at a cool speakeasy. I think we could have just sat in that booth with cocktails and chatted with one another all night. The tiny lobby had book shelves lined with books except one section was a door that you passed through to get into the back. When your table was ready that would pass a note through the wall to alert the hostess. There was a multiple page notebook full of handmade cocktails to choose from. As we were paying out the waiter left a small book on our table and we were allowed to write a little note to share with future guests. As we were leaving I noticed that these notes lined the walls of the bathroom like wallpaper. I thought it was really unique!

We ate such great food the whole time we were gone. The first night we had dinner at a great little farm to table place. It was packed! The menu was kind of tapas style so we just ordered a small assortment and shared. The next morning we had giant pancakes at our hotel. For lunch the next day we tried out another farm to table style restaurant that J had read about. It was also great! We did a few touristy things. We went to the Federal Reserve and saw a couple cool exhibits. We also went to a big museum downtown that had an entire exhibit devoted to awkward family photos. We got lots of laughs there! It was so fun to just walk around Denver and shop and eat and drink.

J bought us a VIP package to the concert at Red Rocks. We took a bus shuttle out of Denver and because we had VIP passes we were able to get into the venue early as well as grab a couple of fantastic seats on the second row! It was such an amazing concert and truly a beautiful amphitheater. I felt pretty terrible the entire time which was such a disappointment because we had been waiting so long to go to this concert but I made it! Luckily, I don't look back on this night and just remember how bad I felt but how truly amazing the whole experience was with J.



I'm so grateful to my mom for taking time off of work to stay with C so that we could go on this little getaway. It was so wonderful to get some time away and just spend a couple of days together just the two of us. I look forward to all of the rest of my years traveling with this guy and just doing life with him in general. I think he is truly the best.