Hello from Aspen!!!!

This is the view I am enjoying as I write this blog entry.

You are so jealous, right? With Inauguration Day following the day after an already long MLK Day holiday weekend, I was left with a five day weekend where I knew I needed to escape at the Inaug. Day crowds (and if the tourist level of annoyance on my Metro ride home last night is any indication of what is to come, Godspeed DCers.) So I jumped at the chance to join Erin and her mother-in-law, Judi, in Aspen!

Make no mistake, I have no intention of skiing. And not because I do not know how. I totally do. We had downhill and cross country skiing units in my high school gym class. A serious perk of growing up in the Great North! My high school actually has (or had...) cross country ski trails right off the football field.

Anyway, back to skiing. I can ski and I have skied. I like the ski outfits. I just do not like the actual skiing part. That whole flying down a mountain with lines of trees waiting for me to smash into does not mesh well with my need to be in control of everything. HA! So I was lured into visiting Aspen on the potential for celebrity sightings!!!

And it is sooooo beautiful here. And so sunny. My Vitamin D stores have been completely replenished. Hmm, I wonder what job climate is out here. HA!

Due to a series of schedule/airport changes indicative of my recent bad travel luck, I have arrived hours before the rest of the gang! So I am just lounging around and soaking in the scenery!!! And the restaurant downstairs has really good after dinner mints! Not as good as D.C.'s Thai Chef's dinner mints (the dinner mints by which I judge all other dinner mints) but I would probably rank them second on my list!

I will post more of Aspen as the weekend progresses! Fingers crossed for celebrity sightings!

And one more picture, taken from the balcony...so pretty!