Fort Collins

Old Town Fort Collins

Yesterday, as soon as we got off of work, we met in Lafayette and headed up to Fort Collins.  We basically wanted to go so that we could go to an ice cream store there called Kilwin's, which is in Old Town.  They have the best Mint Chocolate Chip that has ever been made, ever.

On the ride up we decided to go to dinner at Bisetti's, an Italian restaurant a few doors down from Kilwin's.  It's actually where we had our rehearsal dinner so we have some nice memories there.  Our dinner was tasty, she had something called Farfalle Orvieta (replaced the farfalle with gluten-free penne) and I had the usual Pesto Tortellini w/chicken.  I was thinking how purty Ariane looked from across the table.  Her dark hair looked longer than it normally does, which I like, and she was still all dressed up from her work day.  She always manages to look good ... while I on the other hand was wearing jeans, tennis shoes, and a G.I.J.O.E. t-shirt.  Classy.  Somehow she doesn't even seem to care that I'm wearing a t-shirt and look scraggly with my incoming beard ...

After dinner, we took a little walk since we were feeling really full.  We decided we would head east and look at some of the cool houses near Old Town.  As we strolled and talked, it became blatantly obvious that we really missed Fort Collins.  We were talking about how nice it is as soon as we arrived in the FoCo -- there are mature trees everywhere, we like the neighborhoods, the restaurants, the shops, the diversity, etc.  We just felt like we were at home.  There was a little girl even walking home from the library and we were thinking how nice that would be just to send your kid to the library by him/herself. 

We walked back to the ice cream store where I got my mint chocolate chip and she got her strawberry, and moved along to Old Town Square.  That's basically like the central part of Old Town, where there are nice places to sit and people-watch.  Oh and there are bars too, but they have throw-up on the floor (inside story).  We saw a lot of college kids, but we also saw family with children and old couples walking by ... and it really made me want to move back!  I think she was probably thinking the same thing, and we talked about it all the way home.  We reminisced about all the different things we used to do when we lived in FoCo, like riding our bikes, or hiking, or walking around somewhere, etc -- we just used to do more.  The reason for that is because there's more to do there!  Broomfield is definitely a bedroom community ... no downtown, no community feeling, nada.  Kind of boring.  We were definitely wishing we could just move our house and our jobs up to Fort Collins and call it good!  The conversation was good, because we came to a conclusion on a few things, and appreciated the night.

Last night felt really good to both of us because it seemed like a date.  We did meet up, go to dinner, have a nice walk, have some ice cream, and some nice conversation.  We were even being nerds together at dinner, looking on the IPHONE!!  WHOA!  Neither of us thought it was strange to be playing with the phone at a nice Italian restaurant!  Ariane came up with the idea that we need to write down all the things that we want to do, and then we need to do them!  She said that we should put them on 3x5 index cards or something like that.  I think that's a great idea!  Guess we'll start tonight ...