Awake: 6:28am Temp 39 sleep 6+40 sunny-windy overnight @ Denver, CO.
@ 9:00 am, we met with Tom & Marge @ the Le Peep Grill just up the road from our campground. They will be leaving soon (pending weather) for their home in Grand Junction, CO, so we want to get as much time together as possible while we can.
Our gab & eating time lasted almost a hr & then Tom & Marge followed us to the Flying Saucer campground.
After a short visit & a quick tour for Marge & Tom of our motorhome, we followed them to see & tour their daughter, Kathy's home, also in the Littleton area.
Kathy's home is in a good location, close to her work & has enough room for her to offer overnight guests, like Marge & Tom, their own bedroom & bath. It has a nice size, fenced in (recently done by her brothers & parents) backyard as well as a (2) car garage & a large tool shed.
During their short visit to Denver, Tom also has been getting a few things fixed up & working properly on Kathy's house in his spare time.
Here is Tom in the living room, trying to sneak up on Marge & Kathy K for a surprise photo opt.
Then we left Marge & Tom for now, motored to the nearby Home Depot, where I bought a drill bit & Kathy K bought some green paint (Balsam Fir, to be exact) & then we got back to work on Katrina's condo list.
During the next several hrs, Kathy finished painting Katrina's bedroom wall, a mood relaxing green.
And @ 5:20 pm, I finished # 2 bike hoist in the garage with only (2) more to go.
Then K & I returned to our motorhome, washed up & met Marge & Tom @ the Buca di Beppo in Littleton for dinner. Katrina joined us a little later.
The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement" (buca, which literally means "hole," can be a slang word for basement or cellar, and Beppo is a nickname for Giuseppe, the Italian form of "Joseph", in Southern Italy).
This could be our farewell dinner for now with Tom & Marge & what a meal it was. For some odd reason, we couldn't stop eating their delicious bread; (5) times our "not so happy waitress" filled our breadbasket up, only to find it empty once more & once more, etc.
The food at Buca di Beppo is served family style, each item served à la carte and shared among the dining party. Finally we did order our shared dinner meal of: ½ spinach, walnut, apple salad; ravioli with meat sauce; & baked rigatoni.
Due to some of us eating so much bread, we had to order a doggy bag for the leftovers which we donated to Katrina. Along with having a good gab session while eating, we also enjoyed the décor & nifty pictures everywhere. Each room is themed & there is even a "pope" room.
Oh yes, eventually our "not so happy waitress" started smiling & actually gave us coupons for a discount on our next visit. We wished Tom & Marge a good night's sleep & a Bon Voyage (pending weather) & Katrina a good night & we returned to our motorhome @ 9:15pm.
We watched our recorded political channels.
Lights out: 12:15am.
Our gab & eating time lasted almost a hr & then Tom & Marge followed us to the Flying Saucer campground.
After a short visit & a quick tour for Marge & Tom of our motorhome, we followed them to see & tour their daughter, Kathy's home, also in the Littleton area.
Kathy's home is in a good location, close to her work & has enough room for her to offer overnight guests, like Marge & Tom, their own bedroom & bath. It has a nice size, fenced in (recently done by her brothers & parents) backyard as well as a (2) car garage & a large tool shed.
During their short visit to Denver, Tom also has been getting a few things fixed up & working properly on Kathy's house in his spare time.
Here is Tom in the living room, trying to sneak up on Marge & Kathy K for a surprise photo opt.
Then we left Marge & Tom for now, motored to the nearby Home Depot, where I bought a drill bit & Kathy K bought some green paint (Balsam Fir, to be exact) & then we got back to work on Katrina's condo list.
During the next several hrs, Kathy finished painting Katrina's bedroom wall, a mood relaxing green.
And @ 5:20 pm, I finished # 2 bike hoist in the garage with only (2) more to go.
Then K & I returned to our motorhome, washed up & met Marge & Tom @ the Buca di Beppo in Littleton for dinner. Katrina joined us a little later. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement" (buca, which literally means "hole," can be a slang word for basement or cellar, and Beppo is a nickname for Giuseppe, the Italian form of "Joseph", in Southern Italy).
This could be our farewell dinner for now with Tom & Marge & what a meal it was. For some odd reason, we couldn't stop eating their delicious bread; (5) times our "not so happy waitress" filled our breadbasket up, only to find it empty once more & once more, etc.
The food at Buca di Beppo is served family style, each item served à la carte and shared among the dining party. Finally we did order our shared dinner meal of: ½ spinach, walnut, apple salad; ravioli with meat sauce; & baked rigatoni.
Due to some of us eating so much bread, we had to order a doggy bag for the leftovers which we donated to Katrina. Along with having a good gab session while eating, we also enjoyed the décor & nifty pictures everywhere. Each room is themed & there is even a "pope" room.
Oh yes, eventually our "not so happy waitress" started smiling & actually gave us coupons for a discount on our next visit. We wished Tom & Marge a good night's sleep & a Bon Voyage (pending weather) & Katrina a good night & we returned to our motorhome @ 9:15pm.
We watched our recorded political channels.
Lights out: 12:15am.
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