Sunday, February 18, 2007
Surprise Dinner in the Crags
The surprise was backcountry skiing to a snowcovered picnic table in the dark in order to eat a hot dinner over a camp stove. As you can see there was a bit of snow involved (and a bit of wind!) but Levi was still enjoyfully surprised. (enjoyfully, hmm... I like that word) We enojoyed our 5 course meal that began with fine deli sandwiches, followed by the second course of Springboard Ale (New Belgium's newest brew). Our third course was a fine tortilla soup from a can and dessert was a yummy plethora of Girl Scout cookies (acutally there were only two for each of us). What truly made the meal though was the steel-tasting hot cocoa that Mandy made from the water she had used to heat up the can of soup using a double boiler technique. Yummy!
Chipotle in Costume
Well here we are in downtown Colorado Springs enjoying lunch outside of Chipotle on a warm 50+ degree day (hey we have had a cold winter also you midwesterners!). Well Mandy had asked Levi to wear a costume to lunch and so he arrived at her house wearing the trendiest outfit she had ever seen him wear ("I have only seen him wear carhartts!" Mandy was heard exclaiming). Well underneath his chic turtleneck sweater he revealed the newest in his line of homemade t-shirts. In case you cannot tell it is a picture of a windblown Mandy on top of a 14er, I don't know if that is the definition of "style"?!
