Before I tell you about the first grumpy person let me set our scenario up for you. We are in Estes Park in the (HOT) summer on a Saturday and it is BUSY. The traffic is insane and so are the loads of pedestrians. Turns out everyone else in the United States decided that our idea of visiting Estes this weekend was a good idea too.
As tradition goes, Josh and I always stop and get a subway sandwich before we head out on our hike. So today like any other Rocky Mtn/hiking day we were driving through Estes trying to find a parking spot near the subway. Josh decided he would park in a "motorcycle" parking spot in front of a barbershop while I ran in and got our sandwiches really quick. Did I mention our car was over heating? Yeah awesome. Anyways, Mr. Grumpy Barber came out of his shop and proceeded to tell Josh that he would get a ticket for parking there and Josh said we'd only be there for 5 minutes. While I was gone getting the food I guess Mr. Barber realized his evil eye wasn't working on Josh so he went to get his phone to call the police. Seriously dude? You don't have anything better to do? On the other hand, his shop was empty, guess not. Josh decided to leave and just drive around till I got out. We got over the first grump pretty fast and were on our way to the trail head.
We hiked up to Beirstadt Lake and it was really beautiful besides some really loud and annoying tourists. (Man, I'm the one that sounds grumpy now huh?) Then we came back down to Estes to do some walking around down town. On our way down we had to stop on the road because some horseback riders were crossing the road. More like stopping on the road. The guide road her horse into the middle of the road, stopped , and then had the three other riders come onto the road and stop for a solid minute before they proceeded to slowly one by one ride off the road. As the second horse was stepping off the road Josh started slowly creeping up closer to the car in front of us anticipating getting down the road. As Josh did this, the guide (mind you she looked like she was 15) yelled back "CAN YOU PLEASE WAIT TILL WE ARE OFF THE ROAD?!" in a very snotty tone. If you know Josh you know that he doesn't handle someone with this kind of attitude very well. Josh yelled back "can you wait till there isn't any traffic before trying to cross the road?". To this the guide replied in an even snottier tone "I have the right of way! You want a ticket?!?" (She doesn't have the right of way if you were wondering. I looked it up in the park rules.) Josh yelled back "yes!" and we kept driving down the road. Sheesh! What was her problem? Moving on.
We enjoyed our time walking around downtown and indulging in an ice cream cone and smoothie at the local blue bell ice cream shop. We decided to stop and sit on a bench in the shade to finish our treats and there was a big biker dude sitting to the left of Josh in the sun. Josh commented to the biker dude that there was plenty of room in the shaded area of the bench if he wanted to sit there. To this the biker dude replied in a very grumpy/gruff tone "there's plenty enough shade HERE!" Yikes! Your sitting in the blazing hot sun! It's a good 95* outside! Just trying to be nice! That's when Josh and I resolved not to talk to anyone in Estes but each other for the rest of the day.
We really did have a good trip, we were just surprised by all those stinkin grumps! Lighten up people!
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| Beirstadt Lake. (All these pictures were taken by Josh) |
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| I think it's time for Sadie to get a bigger hat. Shes got a big noggin! |
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| Sadie loved watching these ducks. It was all I could to to keep her in my arms. |
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| Once again asleep in the backpack. This hikes really wear her out! : ) |
dear sadie. stop being so cute! she is obviously the cutest baby ever.
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