Today of course I’m getting lots of Father’s Day wishes but it’s really a day to honor the father’s no longer with us. We have my dad, Don and Bob that are all gone who were all great men in their own right. Anyhow the boys ordered me up something which I think is at Lori’s office that they’re excited to give me. Ty has been trying to find me something in town from a Louis Vuitton key chain to a handmade knife. Thankfully he asked me first before having Lori buy it.
Yesterday after a hike up the mountain we headed to town. We stopped at a few stores including Ralph Lauren to see Chris, our friend who is the manager. We found Jag a sport coat at a deal that actually fit him really well. It’s blue and a nice wool blend and is a 38 long which was perfect so we had to get it. He also scored a blue shirt while Lori found a dress off the sale rack downstairs as Chris lets us go in the back room and check out the things they’ve taken off the floor. You know how we love a deal! Around 1:30 we met Diane for lunch at Jing. This is a restaurant owned by Frank who of course is from China and also owns Little Ollie’s in Cherry Creek and Jing in the Tech Center in Denver. We’ve known him for a number of years and he and the boys, especially Jag, speak Mandarin to each other. The boys had some Kobe beef on a hot rock that they cooked table side by themselves. Frank showed them how and kept bringing them fresh hot sizzling rocks from the kitchen to the table for them to cook their meat on, it was fun.
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was some more browsing and shopping (Tina bought a coat and some other things) before rushing back to change for dinner. Dinner was a prix fix meal that was good but interesting. There were almost too many flavors as each dish had something explosive going on. It was fun but you wouldn’t do it again. I know a bunch of my wines will shortly be flowing there. We could have gone to a big party at the Mine Shaft (the old mine in town) but passed. Lori and I declined earlier in the day and Tina decided she too wanted to skip it after dinner. So we headed home where a Monopoly game was still set up from the previous night to finish off the high stakes battle. I watched while Jeff and Ty had a team and then Jag was on his own and so was Lori. Tina too watched sort of as she kept throwing in her 2 cents. It was funny. Finally around 11 pm we all went to bed.
Today we’re headed back into town to see a few people and then will head down valley for lunch at El Korita, our favorite mexican restaurant in Basalt. Then it’s off to home. We’ll stop in Gypsum to pick up Harley and then get Mojo from daycare. It was a fun weekend and Jeff and Tina are pretty easy to travel with. Hope everyone is well. It’s back to working out and eating right from our three day sabbatical and expedition to gluttony. I could never be a food writer as it’s just too much food! God Bless