A Week of Thanksgiving - We're Golden

Have I mentioned how much I love living here?  Just out for a Saturday drive...in the mountains.

The day started with G's firm dedication to supporting Small Business Saturday.  At a nerd store, of course.  After much deliberation (while I sat in the car like an old lady) he bought the Dystopian Legions FSA Starter set and also a small pack of French air ships.  Whatever that means.

G with his treasure.

People, there is a dragon on the window.  A dragon.

His nerdy spoils.

After doing our capitalism due diligence, we drove to Golden, a Western-style mining town, also the home of the Coors beer plant.  It is nestled in between the foothills.  We had lunch, walked around the shops, bought some serious coffee and then headed out for our old folks Saturday drive.

The other day my passenger-side window just fell down.  Randomly.  While we were going 60 mph on the highway.  We got an appointment to take it in to the shop tomorrow, but in the meantime, we are driving around with it duct taped shut.  Cue the Beverly Hillbillies music now.

Note the large strips of ugly duct tape holding the window shut.

We drove around in the mountains for a couple of hours.  No animals this time, but we did see several people fishing, and rock climbing, and hiking.  In the small town of Nederland, we stopped so a lady could walk her goat across the street.  A full size goat!  She was walking it!  It was awesome!

Some crappy cell phone pics of the beautiful drive:

We got home just in time to put up the Christmas tree and then dash back out to get some pics of the sunset over Denver:

I'm telling you, I could get used to this.  But tomorrow work starts up again and will totally get in the way of my social life and personal hobbies.  Can someone please do something about that?!  In the meantime, we have one more day of exploring left!