Fall Trip - Day 2

 At our age you never know if you're going to get a good nights' sleep but we both slept great so that was a plus!  I knew exactly where we were going to eat breakfast because only one place was open - so we got dressed and headed to town and were there by about 8:15!  OH MY GOSH!  With it being the ONLY place to eat breakfast, the line was almost out the door - AND they were short of help! We waited and waited and waited and finally got up to the register to order - the gal was making a latte as she took my order (and all I could think of is she is NEVER going to remember what we ordered for coffee).  Breakfast sandwiches with regular coffee for Glenn and a mocha for me - $38.00 (what did I expect???  HA)

Unfortunately there was NO place to sit inside as it's VERY small so the only alternative was outside - they had a nice deck with lots of tables and chairs but it was all shaded - Glenn had worn his coat, I hadn't as I knew we would be sitting inside - RIGHT!!!  SO I would stand in front of the place for awhile and get warm and then go and sit with Glenn!

We FINALLY got our breakfast sandwiches and they were delicious!  I kept watching the gal that took our order bring coffee out to other people outside and then I realized she was serving people that had ordered after us - GRRRRRR - by this time we're 1/2 way done with our sandwiches!!  I walked in and told her we didn't have our coffee and I was right, because she hadn't written it down, she had forgot it.  In her defense she was SUPER busy and I was very nice about it - she apologized and soon brought out both of our coffees along with a paper bag with a strudel in it - so very nice of her to give us that!

So we went back to our place and had another cup of coffee and split the strudel before we headed out!

We headed over McClure Pass - a beautiful place but some of the trees weren't quite turned yet - still majestic!

The view of the entire valley was amazing!

Then we dropped down into the town of Marble - (that tiny picture above is an error - Blogger printed the same picture twice so I made one very tiny!) Marble is a small town but it leads to the trail that has the most photographed mill in Colorado - Crystal Mill - we ATV'd there a few years ago and it's WELL worth the trip there in the fall!   We made a swing through the tiny town - it has quite the business at probably the only place to eat in town - BBQ - but we were still full from breakfast so didn't stop!

Stopped at this pretty place to grab a picture!

Then it was back up the pass!

Back to our place for a photo op on the swing!!!

Dinner - I felt like we were batting zero!!  There was a Mexican place open that just had an OK menu so we decided to head back to Big B's where we had eaten a few years ago - you just order inside and then sit outside to eat in this huge area - it's a fruit farm with a campground and just a cool place!  Hamburgers and fries were great and we were back home before dark!  Glenn and the owner sat around and talked quite a while - his girlfriend showed up later so we visited before we all headed in for the night!