dinner jacket

Yesterday our friend Justin took his Orthopedic Boards. The Boards are a 'final exam' of sorts after 9 years of training. Kind of a big deal. To celebrate Justin wanted to ride to Sundance and then dine at the Tree Room. We were in. 

Ryan and Justin at the summit of the Alpine Loop

Justin somehow sweet talked the girl at the Spa to stay late (missing yoga) and let them shower. She was supposed to charge them $30 but then felt badly because she thought she was rude to them when they first got there (because they were an hour late and she was missing her yoga) so she gave it to them for free. 

Amelia and I brought clothes for Ryan and Justin to change into.

Oops.

So Justin ate in his bike shorts and a jacket we found in the car. Gave us all a good laugh, especially when he got a little warm and inadvertently unzipped his jacket. Good thing the Tree Room doesn't have a "no shirt no service" policy.

what she doesn't know...

Yesterday was kind of rainy, and we were looking for something fun to do, so we met up with Avery at the Thanksgiving Point dinosaur museum. We pulled into the parking lot at the same time as a school bus full of kids. Danielle and I tried to talk the girls into something else, but Ella would have none of it. She was told she could see dinosaurs and see dinosaurs she would. While we were in the lobby, a little bit of (evil?) genius set in. "Wow! Can you believe this huge dinosaur? Look at the little baby dinosaurs! Let's go upstairs and see more pictures of dinosaurs, and run around. This is great! All right...let's go eat dino nuggets in the dinosaur cafe."

The girls laughed, played, ran around and had a great time. They were already asking when we could come back. Just think how fun next time will be if they get to go inside to the actual museum :)

*the matching outfits were not on purpose. but we decided it was a good idea--makes them easy to spot when they dart away!