Simply Sustar: Summer 2013 Recap

Trip to Colorado:
In June we went back to Denver and Boulder for the first time since we moved at end of December 2011, and for the first time since Henry was born! The last time I was in Colorado, I was 30 weeks pregnant!
Going back with Henry was wonderful because it was great to see so many friends and familiar places, but it was also a challenge to try and fit everything in that we wanted to do, while traveling with a 15 month old. Also adding to the challenge was the fact that a day after we got to Denver Henry came down with a fever that he had for three days, so he was not himself and had a very hard time sleeping during our trip AND the first four days of the trip (that was a little over a week total) LJ was attending the ASHRAE (engineering) conference so I was on my own with Henry and trapped in our hotel room when he was napping. Actually I was trapped in the same bed with him while he was napping ON ME because he wasn't feeling well and wouldn't sleep without me holding him. =/
Other than that, it was wonderful to get back to Colorado and see so many of our wonderful friends, former co-workers and colleagues, and visit our old stomping grounds. Even though our hotel was luxurious (and paid for by LJ's employer! yay!) we discovered it's much easier to stay in a house or condo when traveling with a baby, because then when they are asleep, at least you can be in another room and hang out! Once the conference was over we spent a night with friends in Wash Park (Denver) and things went much better. After the first five days in Denver we went up to Boulder and spent the rest of the time there with our dear friends Eva and Ken who have a son who was 19 months in June, which made life so much easier, and more fun for Henry! We also got to see many of our other Boulder friends including our former house-mates Rob and Dale (and their two little girls) and Arpita and Karl (and their little boy). The last day of our trip we had a great picnic at a park in north Boulder and many of LJ's grad school friends came to that, so that was a really wonderful way to end a great trip. I hope we can go back soon!

6.23.13 - Trip to Vine Street Pub... which only lasted about 10 minutes because I realized I had the car keys and LJ was still at his conference and needed to meet us. So... we walked back towards him to Steuben's!