Putting on the Ritz!

We spent last night in Denver at the Ritz Carleton. WAY different from the Courtyard Marriotts we have stayed in most of the trip. The bellboy almost busted his face trying to beat us to the door so that we would not have to open the door for ourselves! The front desk knew Kevin's name before he even got up there to check in and the valet whisked the car away before we had time to blink. Kevin and I decided that we didn't have enough entitlement issues to be staying at this hotel but oh well! We went up to our room- with the BEST bed I have EVER slept in- to change and throw our stuff down before heading to lunch with Marta and her husband.

After a quick stop in Ann Taylor LOFT, where I quickly decided there was nothing I needed which very rarely happens and is a shame because I have a coupon that expires tomorrow, we headed over to the ESPNZone to meet our friends. We ended up going to lunch at a local brewery and chatting for a while before picking up our tickets to the baseball game. It didn't even take much convincing to get Marta and Francesc (which I probably spelled wrong and am sorry) to join us. It was her first baseball game and little did she know what a treat it would be. We were sitting in Center Field in the special seats that allowed you to go onto the field for the fireworks and the very first pitch was a home run right behind where we were. If you see SportsCenter from this game you can clearly see Kevin jump out of his seat. The game would go onto have something like 9 home runs and last over 4 hours. By the end, I was just ready for fireworks and sick of the obligatory people that always seem to be right around you at baseball games. They include: WooHoo girl, Talk about something totally unrelated for the entire time girl, people that come in the middle of the game, and smelly man. Sometimes you also get: Annoying kid, drunk guy/girl, fighting couple. Lucky for us, the last three stayed away.

After the game we were trotted onto the field for the fireworks. On the field we were joined by 11-year-old hoochie girls and several glassy eyed toddlers. The fireworks were pretty neat and my new fancy camera got some good shots which will be posted eventually. It took a while to get out of the stadium but at least we didn't have to wait for a train and instead were able to walk back to the hotel where our bed and been turned down and chocolates had been neatly placed on the pillows. Kevin took full advantage of the 24 hour room service menu and ordered up some post game milk and cookies bringing our junk food count for the day way up. The cookies were incredibly good as they should have been for $16.

If you ever have the opportunity to stay at a Ritz- just do it. The beds there make whatever price you pay completely worth it (and by the way, they just opened and were running an insane special and that is the only reason we stayed there). Seriously, I felt like I was sleeping on a cloud. Between the feather bed, the down comforter, and the smushy pillows there was no reason to ever get out of that bed. And, as Kevin will atest, I tried my best to take the bed with us. I also refused to get out of it until it was almost time to checkout at noon. Best- Bed- Ever!

Today, we spent the whole day driving. I slept through most of Wyoming but was awake long enough to notice that Wyoming is the mountainy version of Kansas. There is NOTHING there! We are in Ogden, UT now which is only 45 minutes away from the new house. Hopefully, our stuff will arrive on time and we will be done with hotels for at least the rest of this week. All other stories from tonight will have to wait as Kevin needs this computer for some football related madness. At least this time, he waited until the car was stopped!


States visited: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah
Work Zones traveled through: 32
Cheapest gas seen: $3.77 in Kansas
Baseball Games attended: 3
Next Stop: Our new house!!!