Mahokenatez: September 2010

This past weekend found us traveling to Denver for a wedding. The wedding was for a childhood friend of Kate's which was held at Red Rocks. We left Friday afternoon, which brought us to DIA that afternoon. Since you can't fly with a gift wrapped box we needed to run some errands once we arrived. We also needed to find a Kinkos to print out a recipe we were giving with our gift. After the errands, we searched out a restaurant. It always seems that whenever we get away from home we end up eating at Mimi's Cafe. And this trip was no different. I think it's mainly because Mimi's is the least offensive of our choices. I had chicken and Kate had noodles and that's about as memorable as it gets!

Saturday was the wedding day, but since the event wasn't until 5pm we decided to take a trip to the Denver Zoo. As zoos go, this one is a good one. We were staying about 30min south of the zoo (or so I thought). The zoo is located in City Park (think Central Park in NYC). On this day New Belgium Brewery was holding their Tour de Fat bike festival in the park. Sadly, we only learned of this festival as we sat in our car with hundreds of crazy cyclists pedaling their way to the fest. Once we got through the cyclists and the road construction, we finally made it to the zoo. At this point Kate will definitely want me to tell you that when it comes to directions I'm a little anal. So when we run into road blocks and construction I get a little anxious. I also tend to take it out on my co-pilot when the 3g phone she is using doesn't give us the info we need fast enough! But I digress, we made it to the zoo and all was well.

After the Zoo we hurried back to the hotel and quickly got ready for the wedding. The wedding was held at Red Rocks Park, where the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheater is located (immortalized in this U2 video). That night tecno jazz/hippy dippy band Sound Tribe Sector 9 was going to be playing at the amphitheater, and we were just below it at the Trading Post. If you have ever been to Red Rocks you know that the Amphitheater is built right into the mountain and that they have several parking lots on the mountain as well. Our wedding was right between the stinky hippies and the theater. Here we are, dressed to the nines with all these hopped up hippies looking at us like we were the weirdos! Anyway, the wedding was great and you could only slightly hear the crowd that had gathered early for the show that night.

The reception, however, was not at Red Rocks and STS9 was not the wedding band! We headed down the road to the swanky Red Rock Country Club. Joslyn was the star of the reception! During dinner we could not keep her contained as she hopped from table to table saying hi to everyone! It was really nice not having to worry about her since everyone was loving her. That night I had one of those proud papa moments! Joslyn was going strong and dancing up storm out on the dance floor. During Young MC's Bust a Move Joslyn was center stage with all the adults standing around her as she bust a move on the dance floor. Everyone was dancing, laughing and having a great time. I was so proud of her! Joslyn danced all night and when the DJ called last dance she was sad to leave. It was 11:30 (1:30am back home in ATL!) and we needed to get Joslyn home! Needless to say we had a great time!

Sunday morning came too early, especially for our little rock star! We paid the price all day Sunday with a crabby baby! Joslyn was still a trooper and didn't fuss too much on the plane. I just wish she would have fallen asleep a little sooner than 5min before we landed in ATL.

And that was Denver and back in just 3 days...

Here are some photos from our quick trip.