Monday, October 6, 2008

Silver Plume Tea House, Georgetown Aspen Festival, and Railroad Loop

It started snowing in Colorado this weekend so we decided to take advantage of the last couple of days before the cold. We went to Silver Plume which is a tiny town just east of the Eisenhower tunnel/Continental Divide. This place is badness! It is a relatively authentic Rocky Mountain town--minus the silver mining of course. No vendors trying to sell knock off "gold nuggets" or any of the other usual touristy garbage. We ate lunch at the only restaurant in town--the Tea House. We had homemade scones with lemon curd, honey butter, and currant preserves. Also some tomato soup, and homegrown peaches and apples. They are supposedly famous for their pies but we had to bail before we could eat some. Just off I-70, watch close for the signs or you'll miss this little gem.


We then checked out the Aspen Festival that was going on a couple of miles east in Georgetown. There are a few places that make homemade ice cream here so we got Pralines 'n Cream in a chocolate-dipped waffle cone. This was Grace's first time with this flavor and it was a screaming success. She has figured out that foods that are sweet and rich for the simple sake of being sweet and rich can actually be a good thing.

This is Rose Street in Georgetown. A few very well preserved homes that are around a hundred-years-old line this short road. Even though this house had a John McCain sign on its lawn we thought it warranted a picture.
Mountain Man Blues Band--not their real name but catchy, yes?
On to the Georgetown Railroad Loop. This train winds up the canyon back to Silver Plume. It is about a 12 mile trip one way.
It wasn't that cold, but this old Mexican grandma sitting next to Grace kept on telling us that Sloane was cold, she even tried to pull Sloane's hat down onto her ears.
Orange leaves.


The yellowing Aspens scattered amongst the pines were very pretty.
Our train broke down, not really. One of the brakes on the wheels was stuck so it was like driving with the emergency brake on.


This is a refurbished turn-of-the-century bridge. Kind of scary.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

親愛的GEACE媽媽,
你跟妳女兒的膚色未免差太多了吧!!
SLOANE還是那麼可愛,
好想咬一口喔‧‧‧
還有啊,下次你要帶我去多一點地方玩
人家也想坐火車啦

Our Side of Paradise said...

小姐,,你去的地方也不比我少啊,下次你來在帶你去吧..沒辦法Sloane是混白人我要是跟他一樣爸媽會吵架吧..haha下次跟他拍照還是畫個妝好了省得差那麼多..

mrs. farlanderz said...

yes, it appears this place is the badness...

mrs. farlanderz said...

we added some people picks just for you guys

Yuricita said...

Wow! there view from the train very pretty! :D Look nice yammy Ice cream. You've got snow already!? still Quebec not yet...lol Here is like great autumn season right now.) Nice trip!

mrs. farlanderz said...

more pics please...

Linsey said...

I skipped Loren's birthday too. The birthday posts were hard so I decided only to do milestone birthdays (Lil - 35, Lane - 30 and Lyman 25). Loren at 34 and you at 27 just didn't make the cut. Kind of uns I know, but that was my logic.

K. Crisler said...

update your blog already!