New Year's Trip to Crested Butte!

This New Years we rang in the New Year in style in Crested Butte CO along with 4 other of our couple friends. We arrived from our 15 hour car ride around 1pm on the 29th. That day we all tried to get as acclimated as we could to the elevation and scope the condo and the mountain The next day, New Years Eve, we set out for our first day of skiing and it was FREEZING!!!!! It was literally -14 outside and was the same if not colder for the next day. Needless to say the ladies only made a couple runs down the mountain the first couple days and after the runs we sought it necessary to take refuge from the cold and to go into the Lodge to enjoy some beverages to warm us up! ;)

Can barely see but this is the crew before we set out on our 15 hour journey! Minus Daniel and Lindsay who chose to fly in the next day.

We made it!!! View from our condo

Ash, Lindsay, and I 

Linds, Ev, Ash and me freezing on top of the mountain!

Matt and I

REFUGE and onto the hot tub!!!

 

That night we all got dolled up and headed downtown to Maxwell's Steakhouse for a nice New Years dinner. Our reservations were at 8:30pm but being New Years we didn't sit down at our table till around 9:30pm. Once at the table we ordered drinks and some de-lish appetizers. Matt and I chose the Crispy Duck Wings which were out of this world!! For our main, Matt got the Lamb and I surprised everyone ordering the Ladies Steak Fillet!! For those that know me....I'm not much on steak or red meat for that matter but it was melt in your mouth delicious!!  Everyone enjoyed their meal and the restaurant had all the time zones on TV and so we rang in the NY multiple times! We ended up leaving around 12:30am and headed back to the condo to get some rest for another day on the slopes.

We were waiting on the shuttle to pick us up to go to dinner and it was FREEZING and so we decided to wait in the bathroom to entertain ourselves and keep warm!

On the shuttle

At dinner

Lindsay and Chris

Dustin and Evan

Lindsay and Daniel

Crispy Duck Wings!!

On the way back to the condo

The rest of the days were spent on the slopes, lodge drinking warm beverages, hot tub, shopping downtown, hanging out at night at the condo playing games, late night sledding, and a night out to one of the pubs there on the mountain. One of the days was a VERY exciting day on the slopes for Dustin and Evan b/c they got engaged on top of the mountain!!!! We had known it was going to happen....just didn't know when exactly and when Matt told me "the plan" the morning of....I think I was  more nervous than Dustin! lol ;) Although, it might have been from the fact that we were going to the very top of the mountain to "take pictures" and I was so scared on the lift up! I asked Matt on the lift "if we were going to Heaven" b/c that's what it seemed liked! The things I do for friends!! hehe! ;) It was the sweetest thing and it couldn't have been at a more awesome setting! Congrats guys!!! So very happy for you two!! 

Matt and an icicle forming from his hair!

The view from where Dustin proposed!

another view of where we were

A group pic minus Matt (he was taking the pic) before the proposal

Linds and I at the Ice Bar on the slope celebrating the proposal with Dustin and Evan

They're ENGAGED!!

Taking a break from shopping to take a picture

 Everyone made it home safety without any major injuries and so I would say it was a successful ski trip!! I think next year, the ladies are thinking somewhere a bit warmer where we can get umbrellas in our drink! Cheers to the New Year everyone!! :)

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”- Edith Lovejoy Pierce