Day 47

Day 47: 7/3/15 (Castle Rock, CO)

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After a good night sleep in a comfortable bed, we shared a blueberry muffin and a blueberry bagel for breakfast.  The plan was to go to Red Rocks Amphitheater and take a tour of Coors Brewery, but by the time we were going to leave the house, Rico’s Aunt Susan, who had gone out to breakfast with a friend, called and said she was coming home with a surprise.  As it turned out, the surprise was Rico’s cousin Caitlin who had flown in from Memphis the night before to surprise her mom for her birthday.  Susan was worried about leaving before we’d be up in the morning so she almost canceled on her “friend”.  It was a good thing we were able to assure her that we would be able to find ourselves a breakfast just fine – plus John was going to be home since he had the day off due to the holiday so that helped.  We spent the afternoon on the porch catching up and when John got home, the surprise then got passed along.  To say the least, we nixed our plans to go out and just ended up staying home and visiting with Rico’s family. 

While we were sitting on the porch, Jillian noticed a dog come up the driveway who looked a bit like their dog Holly, but it ended up being a neighbor’s dog.  Caitlin, John, and Rico all went to track down the dog and hopefully find its tags to call the owner.  After finding out his name was Thunder, Caitlin tried calling the owners to let them know their dog had escaped, but there was no answer.  Rico and Caitlin ended up walking the dog back home, and they were grateful to have Thunder returned. 

The grill was fired up once again for dinner.  This time we had some bratwurst with potato salad and coleslaw.  John put some secret spices on the brats to make them extra tasty.  After dinner we went downstairs with Susan and watched the movie This is Where I Leave You.  It ended up being your typical Jason Batemen movie, so it was pretty good. Not soon after, we all went to bed.

Fact:

Secret spices = Memphis dry rub

Lesson:

When you just hang around the house and don't go out, you don't really end up doing anything to learn a lesson from

Eat Well; Travel Often

Rico & Jillian