'Let's Go Avs .......'

Today started quite well, with us getting up reasonably early to finish all our food for breakfast. Thomas elected to have popcorn! During the tidying up and packing the cars, David came back up the stairs to say that his cars keys were locked in the car with the engine running. After trying the hire car 24hr emergency line and not getting past the waiting tone, and a local garage, that was going to take forever, we tried to 'jimmy' the locks. After help from some neighbours and lots of different methods we tried the local garage again who miraculously came within 10mins and opened the door within seconds. Good job we didn't have to catch a flight today as David's car was blocking us in.

We headed off from Breckenridge back towards Denver late morning, stopping for some retail therapy at a designer outlet on the way. Em bought a new handbag and we both bought some cycling shoes with cleats for our spin classes.

We arrived early afternoon at our hotel in Denver, 'The Oxford', which Sam and David had stayed at before. It is a really nice Victorian hotel right in the center of downtown near the station. It is far better than the motels we were going to try closer to the airport and the cost was about the same.

Tonight we all went to an ice hockey game between the Colorado Avalanches and the Dallas Stars. We had tried to buy tickets earlier in the day but the were too expensive and decided to try and buy at the box office. Again the tickets were too expensive, but we had heard of 'scalpers' who were selling tickets outside the stadium. David and I went off in search of tickets and after trying a few 'scalpers' got a reasonable deal for the six of us. The last ice hockey game I had gone to was in Oklahoma, but this was far more entertaining. In the end the local team won 4-1.

After the ice hockey, Em and I had a quick drink at the hotel bar and realised that today was our 6 month wedding anniversary. Tomorrow we head off back home to Houston and the Pecks are off to New York on the next part of their hols.