I'm going to back up a bit and take you on a little chronological tour. I arrived on Thursday night and ate a very light dinner with Jeannie in the wonderful restaurant Panzano that was downstairs in our hotel. I don't remember the name of the dish, but it was a pasta with feta cheese, I think some dried cranberries, some nuts and something like sour grass, but I really can't remember. It was very tasty.
The next morning Jeannie was at her conference, so I was on my own. I knew it was going to be a great visit, because what can go wrong when you have a wizard wandering the streets of a city?
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Later, when Jeannie was out of her conference, we took off on foot to see some of the city. There were signs around the city that said "Organ Trail," and looked blood-spattered. We asked about it and were told the city would be crawling with zombies as they tried to break a record for the most zombies on Saturday.
On Saturday we had a food tour scheduled for later in the day, but first we wanted to walk to a "Made in Colorado," store and pick up a few things. We thought it was not very far from our hotel, but it turns out it was very far from our hotel.
We walked a little more than three miles just to get there. Three miles is a lot for me these days, but I was OK. However, the air in Denver is different. It's a bit thin, and just felt different to walk that far. Some of it was a bit hilly, but nothing like here.
That Made in Dever shop also had a specialty chocolate shop called Roberta's Chocolates. But as we walked and kept checking my iPhone to see if were were getting any closer, we knew there was no way to make it back for our food tour on time if we walked, so we caught a cab back. We only bought a few things at the store, because by the time we got there we were both so tired and hungry we had lost interest. They had chocolate dipped Jalapeno peppers, but I opted for a small box of truffles. I also bought Chuck some chocolate covered bacon.
While we waited for the cab we walked across the street to the Mexican restaurant.
Our taxi dropped us at our hotel just in time for our food tour, and as we walked from one restaurant to the next we saw thousands of zombies, and some zombie killers. There were zombie babies, zombie umpa loompas, a zombie Queen Elizabeth and even a zombie banana. Some of the costumes were very realistic.
Oh, and the food was good. I truly can't remember the names of the restaurants. The first one was a desert place. It was OK. The second one was the best, and they brought out a real spread of foods. I had the salmon, and it was really, really good. And this is coming from someone who is used to very fresh and wonderful salmon. I also enjoyed the side dishes. The others in our group enjoyed a few meats that I don't eat, including pork. The presentation was really nice, and the dishes I had were just perfect.
From there we went to a pizza place. Not my favorite. The vegetarian option was a small salad that was nothing special, and the carnivores were served Trotter Pie, which is made of pig's feet. I didn't hear any of the feedback. They offered a couple of beer samples as well. It was OK, but I'm not a big fan of dark beers.
Jeannie and I met a couple of really nice ladies at our hotel lobby, which hosted a happy hour with something tasty and free wine, as well as a neck massage. They were so nice, and invited us to share lemoncellos with them to celebrate their birthdays.
Denver was a lot of fun, and it was great to reconnect with Jeannie after so many years.
Now I'm back and in the groove of work and life again. But I look forward to another adventure sometime soon.
In my next post I'll provide a list some great things to do in Denver.
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