Rocky Mountain Hi!

Or, more formally, Rocky Mountain Hello!

Greeting from Greeley. Just kidding, we're in Colorado Springs. I had to come out here to audit a couple pipelines and was able to fit Annie in my carry-on.

We flew into Denver on Sunday morning and got our rental car. Guess what kind of car they gave us? I'll give you a hint: it's in the picture below:

It's a Mitsubishi Eclipse. It's a little more sporty than you'd expect a state property tax auditor to be driving. And it seems a little small for a guy that's 6'5" and nearly 300lbs. It's okay, though, because the front seat slides back until it touches the beck seat. It's just really hard to get in and out.

On the plus side, it turns around really quick when you accidentally turn the wrong way on a one-way street.

We met up with Annie's sister, Liz, and her family. They drove in clear from Eagle (about 2 hrs away, for those of you playing at home) just to spend a few hours with us. It was great to see them and explore downtown Denver with them. I'd never considered Denver a tourist destination before, but there's a lot of neat stuff going on there.

Sunday night we made the drive down to Colorado Springs and found our hotel. It's not too bad; just off the freeway and pretty similar to every other hotel I've ever stayed at. They do have a good breakfast, though, and a nice exercise room. And most of the toilets work.

For Monday's dinner, we'd heard about this place called the "Salt Grass Steakhouse". It sounded good. Actually, it sounded like they served steak with rock salt and shredded grass on it. It turns out they don't. It was a pretty good steak, as seen below:

It was tasty, but still not as good as the Texas Roadhouse. I would put it #2 on my list of good steaks; above Sizzler, but far behind Texas Roadhouse. There are plenty of Texas Roadhouses around here, though, so we'll still get a good steak before we leave.

Anyway, things are going well here. We'll see you all Friday (if you happen to be somewhere near us that day after we get home...)