Today I woke up at 5:30 AM with Pegs to begin our travels to Steamboat. When we flew into Hayden airport it was pouring rain, I’d like to think it was the skies crying with joy upon our arrival (and to keep us indoors and get to business)!
We got to our house with mom's dear friend Kathy to ogle over her new wood floor she had put in on top of the original pink tiles. However, the new floor enhances the slanted ceiling inside the house... Apparently the ceiling was built that way to 'even out' the uneven ground the house lies on. This house is perfect for Peg's with all of its quirks: kind of like how all the locks on the doors are backwards, just how they are in our house back in Manhattan Beach :)
After dropping off our bags, we went to get lunch at Peg’s favorite restaurant called Freshies in hopes the chef forgot to add wheat germ to his famously delicious veggie-burgers. With luck on our side, or the mass amounts he made for the vacationers over the weekend, they were indeed gluten free and I was able to introduce my taste buds to these delectable patties.
After our meal, we got groceries to set up base camp for our culinary adventure. For those of you who don't know my mother, Peg is notorious for being a very specific foodie; meaning she only eats high quality beneficial foods. Back home, that meant the majority of her grocery shopping was done at Whole Foods or local farmers markets. Since Steamboat doesn't have a Whole Food's, we are doing the majority of our shopping at City Market (like Ralphs or any other supermarket chain); and I must say, she is adjusting very nicely into her mountain cabin life... It also helps that the City Market out here has a great variety of gluten free options we would normally find back home at Whole Food's/& cheaper!
Even though we bought the majority of our produce at City Market to get acquainted with our new one stop shop, we did hit up the two natural-foodie stores Steamboat has in search of Peg's beloved Penta water (aka. Oxygenated water); which I will say has saved my-dehydrated-self many a time before
After we collected the goods, we headed home and settled on making a vegetable lentil soup suiting this cold rainy day. However, after an early and long day of traveling Pegs & I, with scrambled our brains, forgot to take pictures of the lentil soup for the book--we could only laugh at the irony. Can't help but wonder what tomorrow and the following days will bring :)
(Our home for the next 6 weeks!)
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