"I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again..." - John Denver

We love Colorado and some of our very favorite people live there which makes it even better. In fact we love it so much we've already booked plane tickets back. Here's part 1 of our January trip recap.

Los Angeles International Airport, Approximately 6 AM

We left out of LAX on only an hour and a half of sleep. Harper was getting over a cold and we were worried about the change in cabin pressure but she just laughed and laughed on takeoff and then I nursed her to sleep, which is pretty much how she remained until we were waiting for our luggage at the baggage claim.

Guy's BFF, Garrett and his mama, Kathy picked us up for the airport and showed us around downtown Denver. We ate sandwiches on croissants and played in the approximate .5 inches of dirty snow before piling into the car for our journey to Colorado Springs.

And when we got there, Cookie was waiting to babysit so we could go out on the town but we decided we'd stay in and have beef stew. We took her (and Kathy) up on their offer another night.

Kathy's house is full of really cool vintage stuff that inspires me to spend some time sifting through thrift stores.


While we were there we went to this really cool penny arcade where they had...


and


an Elton John pinball machine! And everything was a quarter or less to play.

More to come soon! :]