The Family Sideways: Where to begin?

Where to begin? 6/01/2006 07:35:00 AM

Thanks to the moblog, you're probably all aware of our problems on Friday trying to get in to SBS. We left the Hertz parking lot at 11pm (by the way, the Hertz Gold Club is pretty sweet. Thanks, IBM). If you remember our last trip from SBS to Denver (driving), it was an 8-10 hour long ordeal.

Well, travelling mountain passes at night may be only slightly less harrowing, but it's a hell of a lot quicker - we arrived at the B&B just after 2am and CRASHED (that is, "crashed" in bed. Sorry for any alarm my poor word choice may have caused. Coffee, you know).

When I called the B&B about two months ago to make our reservations, we were the first, so I had my pick of rooms. Last time we got put in a room with a "king" size bed, which was actually just two twin beds pushed together with a king mattress pad and sheets across both, so this time I requested the one room with a true king size bed - the "Sunrise" room. Well, it was aptly named - the sun poured in first thing in the mornings and was actually pretty helpful in my fight against Dana's momentum as I did my best to raise her from the dead each day.

The first day (Saturday), we had a 10am appointment at a really cute little single-family just past the mountain. We spent a good amount of time looking through and talking with the current residents (and owners). As it turned out, the wife works at the hospital as a nurse and "has already chosen" Dana's practice to be her eventual child's Pediatrician's office. They were buying a second home to fix up (this seems to be a main source of income in SBS lately) and wanted to rent this home, which they had pretty much made perfect. I felt it was a bit small, and the location wasn't awesome, but who are we kidding.. it was right on the Core Trail, seen to the right of this paragraph (on the left side in the picture) - it follows the Yampa in and out of town and seems to be a major thoroughfare... for those not in cars. We spent a good amount of time chatting with the owners and headed out.

We left and went back home for some reason, and as we were walking up to our room ("Sunrise" is on the third floor), I got a call on my cell. As it turned out, it was the gentleman our Real Estate guy had put us in touch with who was buying a new duplex and wanted to rent it out. We made an appointment to see him at noon.

Noon rolled around and we couldn't find his place for the life of us - when I called to let him know we were "a bit lost" he said he had given us the wrong street name (ah, OK), and talked us there. We pulled up a few minutes later to a total construction area, but could tell that these were a bunch of nice places being put up (and it appears as if all the "major" construction is already complete). He should have closed on his unit yesterday (Wednesday), and he was doing his final walkthrough as we came to check the place out.

(more later! I'm still not even halfway through Saturday and already this is a long post)

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