Back and bumperless...

Well, what a way to start a trip! We got rear-ended on the freeway on the way to the resort! Aarrgghh. Traffic was slowing as we were coming up to a congested area and the kid (19 years old I think) didn't even slow down! I'm so glad we weren't hurt. Our poor Honda is now missing a bumper and has some nice gouges in the back but otherwise, it was just a serious cramp in our travel plans.

Should we have been nervous to swim at a place that has to include rule #6 at their entry?

After the police sent us on our way, we headed down to Mount Princeton. The resort that we stayed at was beautiful! I was a little leary--as the outsides of the buildings did NOT match the pictures that I'd seen of the rooms--but apparently the recent remodeling effort hasn't made it to the exteriors quite yet. Our room was so beautiful and serene and had such amazing views of Mount Princeton and the surrounding peaks.

Let's be honest, the best part of our room was that it had cable! I got to stay up late and watch TLC...aahhh the good old days right Melissa?

We got there too late to hit the hot springs and eat so we had to choose--of course, I was highly in favor of food. We drove further south into Salida and ate some wicked good wood fired pizza at a little place called Amica's. The spinach salad that we shared (read: devoured because we were starving!!) was also really good. Their food was very impressive and really hit the spot. The best part was that they felt bad that we'd had to wait longer than usual for our food so they brought us some free biscoccittos (these yummy Italian cookies that my neighbor, Mia Bonacci, used to make when I was a kid!).

This morning, we woke up to find 6 deer on our back deck! I opened the door to take a picture of the view and was face-to-face (okay, maybe three feet away from) a doe! After some lounging around, we hit the hot springs and then went snowshoeing for a few hours.

The view of Mount Princeton from our deck. Notice the deer grazing along the side...a little more tame than I generally like my wild animals.

The view looking the other direction off the deck.

It was so nice to spend so much time together and so fun to explore all of the little towns and the area around Mount Princeton. Before the twins, we used to do so many hikes and snowshoe so often together. We had some good belly laughs about some of the ridiculous things that have happened to us while hiking/snowshoeing.

Spencer snowshoeing and being perturbed that he left his sunglasses at home.

The obligatory couple-self-portrait. Spencer's first attempt left out one key element: the bottom 3/4 of my head.