On Sunday we went to Vail. It’s a small village in Rocky Mountains (elevation is above 8000 ft). It’s very nice and cosy, even though because of the off season there was a lot of construction going on. I believe Vail is a major ski resort, but as I mentioned, season is over and at the moment hotels are very inexpensive (we paid $80 for a luxury room in 5 star hotel). The girl who checked us in called Vail a “Ghost town” It was raining Sunday night , but we still had a lot of fun - bathed in Finnish sauna (mmm, I loved the experience) and then we jumped into the outside hot tub and soaked there for some time under the rain. Later we had dinner in a fancy restaurant called “Terra Bistro”. Delicious food and very intimate atmosphere (I got pasta with tomato-lobster sauce, Eldar ordered lamb and Danya went for stake as usual And we got some appetizers as well).

On Monday (it was very warm and sunny day) we took a walk though the village and then headed back to Boulder.

The road itself is very beautiful. It’s interesting how weather changes with the increase in elevation level. We even ran into micro snow storm. I was pretty scared for a moment, because we couldn’t really see the road ahead. Interesting thing that speed limit on the mountain road is 65 mph (in NYS its 55 mph on regular highway). We made couple of stops on scenic view points, one of which was waterfall, took many pictures. Daniel was really fascinated with the tunnels going through the mountain (we encountered about 3 of them)

In Boulder Eldar’s parents prepared delicious dinner for us. Gussein really knows how to cook meat!!! I think I ate my weekly dosage of red meat Because of the beautiful and calm weather we ate outside on the porch, and it was so peaceful and quiet there… Eh, sometimes moving out of NY sounds like a good idea