Quite the day(s)!

I am well aware that I am a bit behind on my blogging as we have been busy(ish) this weekend. Friday night after Jackson got home from a long week (the worst week ever in the stock market- for real) of work we headed to Colorado Springs for dinner and errand running. We went to Cracker Barrel (because what sounds better after a long week?). It was so good. As usual. Then we ran a few quick errands and headed home. It is such a gorgeous drive down that way!

Today we headed to Fort Collins to go to a pumpkin patch that Jackson found online. I'll come back to the pumpkin patch story because on the way to it we saw a sign for a McAlister's Deli! They only have some of the best food and sweet tea in the world! They are prevalent in Indiana, but not here in CO. Jackson quickly pulled off of the interstate and got me to McAlister's! It was so nice to eat there again. Yay!

Ok, back to the pumpkin patch story. It was a bust! My one requirement was that they have carmel apples. NOPE! So the photo below is my best attempt to smile at this rinky-dink pumpkin patch that has a fancy website, but doesn't live up to the hype! Grr. Jackson wants to make it known that they had a cannon launching pumpkins across a field that he loved.

The funny thing is that right across the field from the pumpkin patch was an Anheuser Busch brewing plant that we had never even heard of. They had a sign advertising daily tours so we decided to hop on in. (Get it, hop? Anyway.) The tour was really quite cool (both literally and figuratively as it was FREEZING today!) The plant was so clean! I was blown away by how automated it is. They really only have people on the bottling side. After the tour you get free beer. I was uninterested in this because I hate beer so they hooked me up with a Sprite. They were very, very kind and we really enjoyed our time there!

The actual bottling process.

These horses are in training to walk in parades and whatnot. They were such gorgeous animals. And it was by far the nicest stable I'd ever seen.

We walked around Fort Collins' old town for a bit, but it was raining and cold so we plan to visit again in the spring or summer. It was also homecoming so we wanted to be out of town before the masses left the football game! The campus was not as nice as CU Boulder, but it was a cute town. It reminded us of Lawrence, Kansas, but in KS we never saw kids with a huge, homemade sign that read "you honk, we drink" with a keg on their front lawn like we did at CSU. CLASSY! (Jackson, of course, honked and they promptly filled their glasses and tossed it back)

From there we decided to head up to Cheyenne, Wyoming for dinner. Why? Why not?! I have now marked Wyoming off of my list of states to visit. I don't know that I'll return for any reason really. We ended up eating at a Taco Bell because obviously the 55,000 residents of Cheyenne (the sign actually told us their population unlike CO's signs about elevation!) all go out to eat on Saturday night at 7:30. We didn't spend much time there but it seemed like a typical, American town. Nothing too exciting. It is marked off of the list and that feels nice! :)

MacKenzie seems to be feeling better today after 2 doses of medicine. We're hopeful that this will work. Tomorrow is going to be a lazy day for us as today was a long one! I hope you all are well! :)