Last weekend, we made the trek to Denver for the glorious Great American Beer Festival. We met up with friends from Laramie for a weekend of relaxing & plenty of beer tasting. Friday night, we arrived in Denver in time to have a beer in the lobby of the hotel before heading up to the room to hang out with the crew. As you can see from the picture above, when you have a floor to ceiling cabinet in the hotel room, what better than to see if everyone can fit in the cubby holes?? Apparently that is a strong cabinet...
Saturday morning, we woke up & decided to go for a short run to stretch the legs & prepare for the onslaught of delicious beer. After cleaning up, we took a picture (top picture) before heading over to the convention center - it kind of looks like I'm farting on Steve & everyone else is kind of upset about it...but I swear, I wasn't. We proudly sported our "pretzel necklaces" - a nice way to bring in "food" to munch on while drinking lots and lots and lots of beer. The festival itself was great! They added more floor space this year, allowing more room to spread out. They also added more bathrooms, which is KEY when tasting beer for four hours. We had some excellent beers & a few not-so-excellent beers. (To my dear sister-in-law: Kona Brewing Company now has a Coconut Brown; if you're a coconut fan, I think you'd love it! Not sure when it will be in production).
Saturday night, Steve & I headed to a Flogging Molly concert at the Red Rocks Ampitheatre. Neither of us had been to the venue & we not only enjoyed the incredibly cool concert venue, we loved Hepcats (opener) & Flogging Molly. They put on an excellent show!
Sunday morning, we woke up early for a 10K run I had signed us up for: Das Husslehoff 5K/10K. It was not the best run for either us - in our defense, we had been standing for several hours the day before for beer fest & the concert AND we were very dehydrated from hours upon hours of beer drinking. However, it was an excellent way to wake up for the day, the course was nice, & we saw several funny costumes. Who wouldn't have fun at a race that is based solely around Oktoberfest & Germany's most noted star, the one & only DAVID HASSLEHOFF?! Genius. After the race, we went back to the hotel to clean up & hit the road. A fun weekend had by all.
We had a great time & if anyone ever considers attending beer fest in the future, I highly recommend it. Especially the more expensive "Members-Only" session on Saturday afternoon.
2 comments:
Maybe we should make sure the hotel doesn't see this, they might decide that they can sleep small children (with a fee of course) in those cabinets.
Oh, and as I have always told you, "Girls don't fart, they fluffy." :)
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