Drive to Breckenridge



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Today we got on the 2 hour drive west to Breckenridge, a little town on the Rockies where peeps love to ski. Wikipedia can tell you a bit >HERE< if you like. It was such a nice drive, getting snowier and colder as we went up this mountain. Pretty awesome landscape. Verrrry pretty. All the photos look a bit darker, as I took them from inside the car, and I think it has tinted windows hahaha, but eh.

 I kept seeing things like the big yellow school buses and diners and  huge trucks and pickups and cowboy stores, and hearing stories like people from Colorado sometimes say they're from Granola Country or something like that, because they all retire early and come live here to work out like athletes and ski on weekends.

When we got here and put all our things into the place where we are staying, which is a friend of my boss' condo thing, we all went out for lunch to a place called Empire Burger. Yum. I had a mushroom and swiss cheese burger, with a Buffalo patty. Buffalo. Yes. I thought that was pretty weird, but, tasty.

Tomorrow is the day the parentals go skiing, so hopefully I can get in a bit of exploring. The chairlift here is the tallest in North America, which goes to 12840 feet up the mountain, from the township. That's about the height of Mount Aoraki if my googling is correct. So hopefully I get to go up that too, tho I do wonder how cold it will be up there, it always seems to be sunny but currently the weather is looking like this for down in the town:



So who knows. But, I do have possibly THE warmest and most comfy jacket ever to wear, my boss leant me her spare one she wore whilst climbing Kilimanjaro. No lies, she climbed that beast. I think I might have to give it a go, how long have I been saying I'm gunna be a mountain climber? NOT a Monroe Bagger.
Until then eh!

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