Fun Friday!

Our friend Shannan is visiting from California. We went to college with her at CSU, and she moved to CA a few years ago. She usually comes to visit all of her CO friends a couple times a year, luckily we are on the list :)

Shan came by yesterday to spend time with us! I worked in the morning, but then took the afternoon off to hang out. So with a Friday afternoon off, my husband and a good friend, what did we decide to do?






Go to the brewery of course!







New Belgium to be more specific. If you ever happen to find yourself in (or near) Northern Colorado, you should definitely go there. I haven't been on the actual tour for awhile and it was pretty busy since it's CSU's graduation weekend, so maybe next time. The tour takes a little while, but it is a neat company with really good beer!

Speaking of beer....






When I first went to the brewery, to taste free beer (by the way, it is still free), you would get a small sample of all of their beers.... Well, now (I am sure it is due to the larger numbers of beer they have available and the need to keep people from leaving drunk and driving) you only get to choose 4 to taste.





Not that only tasting 4 beers is that bad (you still end up with about a pint of beer), but I still reminisce about the good old days :) I can't complain too much though, since we live in Northern CO, about 20 minutes from the brewery and have liquor stores on just about every corner.


All in all it was a great Friday! After our beer, we went to HuHot for a late lunch/early dinner, we stuffed ourselves at this all you can eat Mongolian grill. I think it is one of my favorite places to eat!


We said goodbye to Shan (I get to see her today though) slept off a bit of our food coma and headed to hockey practice. We were a few people short, but we had several of our new/newer players there. This was for our beginner/D league team, so it was a good chance to work on skills. We were the last thing scheduled on the ice, so we got to stay late since James can lock up. Well...we stayed until about 12:45 or so (we started at 9:15), so it was a nice 3 and a half hour practice! It was great though! Off to another practice today and another tomorrow, then our first game of the season on Tuesday!


Have a great weekend!