Traveling to Beaver Creek

Christmas breakfast is over and it is time to head to the airport.  Our flight is on Frontier Airlines and is just shy of 3 hours.  This will take us to Denver and from there it is a 2 - 3 hour drive to Beaver Creek.  The flight was basically uneventful.  We all read, slept, or played sudoku.

After we landed, it took us about an hour to get our luggage and rent a car and hit the road.  Now it is getting close to 7 and none of us have eaten since breakfast.  At this point, Christmas morning seemed like it was days ago.  We started looking for places to eat.  Mark says "There is a Chili's sign, would that be OK with everyone".  To which we all replied "Sure".  So we exit the interstate and notice that all the lights are out.  Then it dawns on us that .... it is STILL Christmas!!!  So everything is going to be closed.  We should have eaten at the airport where there were still places open.  So now we are on a hunt to find someplace that is open on Christmas day that is not a rotating hot dog in a gas station.

We thought we were in luck... Denny's across the street... Nope, closed also.  Now Rick and I are both on our phones looking for a Waffle House, Huddle House, etc.  Anything that might be open.  We finally spot a McDonald's and a Carl Jr's.  WooHoo!!  They were both packed.  We settled on the Carl Jr's and were all happy to have Christmas Dinner.  Not exactly what was expected, but grateful none the less.  We certainly had a lot of laughs getting to that point! 

Here is the picture of Christmas Dinner 2011!!! :-)  I think Rod was the hungriest!

The rest of the ride to the hotel was uneventful and we settled in nicely and we all asleep quickly.