Midnight Sun Express

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(Part of Beth and Rita's incredible Alaska adventure.)

English Pub on Sloan's Lake

It's a delight to stumble upon something both unique and tasty: Such as GB's Fish and Chips in Edgewater, metro Denver, just across from Sloan's Lake. (There's a second location on Broadway.)

Besides several English beers on tap (plus a few domestics), GB's serves up a variety of fish, with cod at the top of the menu, along with traditional chips. There's even pretend newspaper lining the baskets in which the fish and chips are served. Shepherd's pie, plus bangers (no mash, though), helps complete the pub's UK offerings, although the view out onto the lake is pure Denver.

An acquaintance of Rita's, an English native, testifies to the authenticity of the fare. He and his wife have visited GB's four times since Rita first mentioned it to them.

One has the impression that English football (soccer to us Yanks) is important to the proprietors, with photos of games and even a Pele jersey hanging on the walls.

One warning: the two restrooms in back are off a dark hallway, and a close look at the artwork on each door is necessary before picking the room of the appropriate gender.

Summer Time

Summers are always interesting and challenging times when we have young children to entertain. As they get older, though, it's always nice when they can come up with things they like to do.

Today when I got this picture from Beth, I fell in love with it! She calls it "Summer in the Blair House."

Bergen Park Elk

Waltzing right through Bergen Park, CO's business district...

The folks in the red car needed reassurance; 

yes, I told them, these are elk. (Photo by Rita.)

The wapiti move into more residential territory.

What can one do at a Mexican restaurant?

Ask Abbi...

On the Casa Blanca patio, Arvada.

(The chips were immersed in the water glass,

after a polite hug of each one.)

A Humoresque Sense?

For the Winter Park condo, the decorator had a curious sense. While most of the pictures are simple, abstract themes with hints of mountains and winter, the print in the master bath is ever-so-slightly implicative:

The young Victorianette reclines on the pier with exposed petti's while holding on to her critical parasol. 

Her would-be beau is, no doubt, relating the results of the latest boat race on the lake. 

(Reflections from the window opposite required a photo from an oblique angle.)

What might mom and dad make of this hidden picture in their private domain?

In the off-hallway bath a print of similar vintage provides a potential source of humor for the teenage children as they while away their winter get-a-way:

Witness the consequences of illicit spirits.

(Reflections from the lights above the sink required the "from-above" angle of the photo.)

Hmmm.

Update:
More thoughts: Is this the designer's retro-prediction of the couple in bath 1 picture some decades down the road?  Problem with this speculation: compare the color of pic 1 with the sepia overtone of pic 2.

Should anyone, anywhere come across this blog and post, feel free to provide your own interpretation. But keep it clean!

ATVing in Sunshine, Alaska

Beth just posted this on youtube today and thought you might enjoy a little glimpse of the fun we had on our Alaska adventure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOADu-Iev5I