Cider Days

When I found out that there was going to be a festival all about apple cider, I quickly wrote it on my calendar. I was not about to miss this! 

Fall is my favorite time of year. The bees are dying, the leaves are changing colors, and everywhere you go, you see apples and pumpkins! What's not to love?

My friend Allie and her daughter, LP, came too. We had a blast catching up and watching people make apple cider the old fashioned way. The festival had food trucks, a miniature animal farm with donkeys and llamas, an apple stand filled with apple butter, apple cider and of course a plethora of apples to buy. 

The sad thing was by the time we got there, the food trucks were out of apple-related items. I wanted to try the apple fries, but that truck was out of apples! How are you out of apples when there is an apple stand on the other side of the festival? AND there are at least two grocery stores within a 5-minute drive. SIGH! That was disappointing, but we did get to have apple cider and kettle corn (a festival staple).

There was also a tractor pull...which I still don't understand the point of. Basically, it looked like a tractor pulling something heavy. Was there a timer or were they supposed to go a certain distance? I have NO CLUE. 

Overall, it was a fun day, minus the bees that kept bothering us. Allie is allergic and I HATE THEM WITH A VENGENCE. So the both of us did our best to stay out of their way, but when you're surrounded by apples and drinking apple cider...they tend to follow you. 

Maybe next year, we will get there earlier and eat all the apple-related things to our heart's content. 

Dina's Birthday Vacation

Last weekend, I had the most fun I've had in months! Looking for a job while working two part-time jobs is grueling! I'm so glad I was able to make the trip to Silt, CO with my friend Dina! Side question, does anyone else feel like most of their friends' birthdays are in September? Every single weekend, I've celebrated someone's birthday, besides my own. Not complaining, just noticing.

The weekend was filled with good food, yummy wine, and great company! Many of us didn't know each other so we would up making new friends too. Dina had friends from Florida, Brooklyn and Denver come a celebrate with us. Clearly, this is a woman I need to be friends with! She has an amazing love for God and a desire to surround herself with encouraging, sweet people. I wish we could do the whole weekend over again.

One thing in Colorado you can't get enough of is the mountains. Silt is in the thick of it, so you could see them all around you. God's creation right on your nose. It was amazing!

Friday night, we had tacos!!!!! Then we chatted some before going to bed at 1am haha.

Saturday was a busy day for we ate breakfast around 9 (Scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon) then headed to Palisade to visit some wineries. The first one was my favorite -- they had all sweet wines. Cause I'm so sweet. They had peach, blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, and even chocolate wines. So good! The next one had mostly tart wines, so I didn't try any of those. We had a picnic lunch there as well -- homemade sandwiches with chips. When we got back to the Air BnB, I took a nap while others watched a movie or went into the hot tub. Then, it was time to get all dolled up. Now, if you know me, you know my idea of dolled up takes 30 minutes topped! The other girls....an hour or more. SMH We went to a rather fancy restaurant. The food was really good but expensive. We sang happy birthday, of course, to Dina when the waitress brought out her cake.

Then the story gets crazy. So, the whole restaurant stopped and watched us sing because it wasn't the traditional happy birthday song. After we finished, we were asked TWICE to sing it to other people who were also celebrating their birthdays. Apparently, we are now famous in Silt, Colorado.

Sunday, we got up early and packed up to leave. We took our final pictures of each other and the mountains then headed home.

The end to a fabulous girl weekend. Until next time!