Today my friend Hayley arrived for a week-long visit from California.  We both took the week off from work for a “we’re not in college anymore but still deserve a spring break vacation”.

Day 1 –

I picked Hayley up at the airport this morning around 1030.  She was hungry.  We stopped by the house to drop off her suitcases then headed into Boulder for some Colorado Pizza…BeauJos anyone?  She loved it!

After lunch we drove around “old town” Boulder and then headed-up Sunshine Canyon.  Never been up that canyon before, but we took it until we could take it no more…and ended up in Gold Hill.  What a cool little town that is!  And oh the buildings, the history!  That town was founded in 1859 and started the Gold Rush in Colorado!  Not to mention it also has oldest continuously operating public school in Colorado (in operation since 1873)!  The buildings were amazing; left over relics from the 1800s!  It gave me so many ideas for the story of Logan and Noelle!  Our favorite was a dilapidated mining section outside the town limits.  The coolest house on one side of the road, and on the other a crumbling barn and mining cars.  We might have to make another trip up the canyon for more pictures and to walk around the cometary (1866!).

After coming back down the canyon, we drove by a few more historic houses in Boulder before returning home to our feed on our Twilight obsession.

Tomorrow, maybe hiking in and around Chautauqua, Flagstaff Road and perhaps even Boulder Canyon.  Elk burgers for lunch in Nederland!