Well today Joe is on his way to Denver on a Super Top Secret Mission and it made me think man I should write a blog post. I have quite a lot of information to share with you all so sit back and enjoy the story.
Well we flew to Denver last weekend and it was a whirlwind of a trip to say the least! It began like all good trips do with a pricey, airport bloody and then was promptly delayed by some cloudy/snowy weather. So we sat and we complained (mostly me) about how we're going to miss our connection, but before the words, "Are we there yet?" could fly outta my mouth we had landed in Denver and we were off to a lovely family friend's house to stay through the weekend!
Katie (our family friend) is the most hostliest of hostesses and she greeted us with oven-warmed pizza (at 12am no-less) and offers for water and beer. She even equipped our room with fresh flowers and a basket of goodies! To say the least Katie's beautiful home was better than any hotel and I still can't thank her enough for letting us stay with her.
The next day I woke to a quiet house, made myself a k-cup and looked out the window to a mountain view. I could get used to this.
We had a busy Saturday, thanks to Joe, filled with apartment appointments! We walked neighborhoods and liked each place we visited, pointing out what would be our new bar, our our new grocery store, our new gas station and really it was just so fun. I liked Denver it was everything I was thinking it was going to be and I could really picture this working, like for real. All we needed was the right place and some jobs to fall into place. The last appointment of the day was upon us and at this point we sorta felt like we had been there done that and weren't expecting anything too exciting, but then we opened the doors of the Belmont Buckingham.
From the outside the Belmont Buckingham is normal looking, a bunch of tanned apartment buildings clustered together on a block, but when you get inside it is very well maintained and there is lots of bright artwork and it just wasn't what you expect when you walk into an apartment building. We met with a wonderful property manager and she toured the building with us showing us the movie theater (cool huh?!), the fitness room, the laundry room (takes credit cards ;p) etc. and of course the actual apartment.
The apartment is perfect. It is spacious and has moldings and nice colored walls and a dishwasher...really all the things we want and at a price we can really, sincerely afford and get this it is available in May, not now so that some other couple can snatch it up, but in May when we would probably be moving!
So we go home (Katie's home, which Martha Stewart probably decorated, yes it was that lovely) and we have our heart set on this apartment but we try not to think about how badly we want it and we get ready to enjoy some food and drinks in downtown Littleton and we put it out of our minds.
Fast forward to the week after we arrive home and we are scrambling to get together paperwork and documents and checks...gawd I can't find the checks...so we can fed-ex this stuff overnight so we can get our beloved apartment. The apartment, which at this point I have completely furnished in my head thanks to Pinterest and maybe a few things we actually own, our dream apartment, the one we definitely can't move to Denver without.
So it gets to be Friday and we have crossed our I's and dotted our T's and we have a Cake tasting to go to since we are of course planning a wedding and our life! Joe, my Momma and I hit up Flour Girl Bakery, which resides in Luna Bakery and Cafe for our cake tasting. Now I am not-eaten-lunch excited for this cake tasting! And Flour Girl did not disappoint us. We had four flavors of cake and like ten little cups of frosting flavors and it was delightful. We got to business with our forks making our favorite flavor mash-ups and I think we got some good things going for our little shindig.
Moving on though, we are of course still hungry, but mostly thirsty, so we head next door to Mad Greek for dinner. And no sooner do our drinks arrive do I obsessively (obnoxiously?) check my phone..."Welcome to the Belmont Buckingham!!!"
And there you go we have an apartment in Denver!
I of course left some small deets out of this story but I will let Joe tell you about that stuff, so for now peace out.
