the quick trip to g'burg with the girls that almost didn't happen...

we made it!

catherine and i braved the elements to get the real skinny.

roads look good. we're going shopping!

took in the local scenery and enjoyed a few micro brews

rebecca and i with our sampler

heather and catherine

my first experience with HOT crispy cremes. thanks heather, thanks a lot!

had to snap a picture of this so i could send this home to pete.

wanted him to know i was missing.

yikes!

in celebration of heather's b-day this year a few of us managed to sneak off for a a couple of nights to get some R&R and do a little shopping. as fate would have it the skies opened up and began to dump snow just as we all loaded in the car. we knew our condo was in the mountains but i didn't realize it was on the top of the mountain. despite our best attempt we couldn't make it up on our first try. the roads were so bad they had closed the last pass that lead up to the Summit. We were instructed to head back down to town, have dinner and wait for the lights to flash. that's right, we were told to wait for the lights to flash signaling that it was safe and the roads had been cleared. being the city girls that we are we found a cantina and plunkered down... waiting for the lights to flash. WHAT LIGHTS? come to find out there are no magic lights that flash. we of course found this out the hard way but nevertheless after an extremely stressful climb to the top we had MADE IT!