{"id":453,"date":"2010-08-23T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/08\/colorado-discoveries-part-3-ymca-of-the-rockies-and-dunraven-inn.html"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:33:39","slug":"colorado-discoveries-part-3-ymca-of-the-rockies-and-dunraven-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/08\/colorado-discoveries-part-3-ymca-of-the-rockies-and-dunraven-inn.html","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Discoveries: Part 3 — YMCA of the Rockies and Dunraven Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our day in Golden, we made our way up into the mountains towards our next stop: Estes Park!<\/p>\n

Dave had been to the mountains in Colorado before, but I never had. I’d only been TDY to Boulder and Louisville, CO for a meeting<\/a>. And there was no sightseeing on that trip!<\/p>\n

Anyway, the drive from Golden to Estes Park was magnificent. North to Boulder, then northwest into Estes Park. So beautiful!<\/p>\n

We had booked a “Military Getaway” package at the YMCA of the Rockies<\/a> in Estes Park. Two nights in their newest lodge plus meals at their dining hall for $179. Considering all the other things in Estes Park, from cabins to beds and breakfasts to lodges, were $150+ per night, this was a welcome deal. I knew that the Y’s lodge rooms were “simple” and the dining hall was on the order of a college dining hall. When we entered the compound, we were in awe of how beautiful it all was!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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We stayed in the Longs Peak Lodge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I’m going to include some other pictures from the Y visit here, even though they’re appearing in another blog post. We enjoyed seeing grazing elk on the compound:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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And we also enjoyed the arts and crafts center at the Y, Timmy and I did tie-dyeing and some mosaic art:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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For dinner on the first night we left the compound and tried out a restaurant our friend Adam had recommended, the Dunraven Inn<\/a> right up the street. There was a wait for a table so we checked out a creek across the street:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Dunraven Inn was so much fun! When you walk in, this is what greets you<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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All we have to do is decorate a dollar bill with the markers they provide you, and the ma\u00eetre d’ hands you a stapler to tack it to the wall. The boys wasted no time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I wrote the date and “Bellevue, Nebraska”, and the boys did the rest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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After dinner (which was really really good and had HUGE portions), Dave worked on one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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He stapled it to a primo location just above the ma\u00eetre d’s station. \u00a0And in typical Penn State Alumni fashion — a party of 5 PSU alumni were the very next guests coming in and noticed Dave’s bill right away. \u00a0I am NOT making this up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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After our day in Golden, we made our way up into the mountains towards our next stop: Estes Park! Dave had been to the mountains in Colorado before, but I never had. I’d only been TDY to Boulder and Louisville, CO for a meeting. And there was no sightseeing on that trip! Anyway, the drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,386,37,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-7j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2779,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/12\/colorado-discoveries-20-sledding-rmnp.html","url_meta":{"origin":453,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Discoveries 20: Sledding at Rocky Mountain National Park","date":"05 December 13","format":false,"excerpt":"The weekend before Thanksgiving, my friend Paige and I took our sons up to Estes Park, Colorado for a long weekend in a cabin. We stayed at the same YMCA of the Rockies resort we had visited in August 2010. 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