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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that really enjoyed our powder day in, um, Littleton on Saturday. Yeah, we go where the snow is, and when we hear there were 2 feet down that way (compared to the 2 microns we got here), we headed on down with our rock skis and had some Littleton soccer moms tow us around the empty streets with their SUVs (which, until then, had never been driven in snow, much less deployed their four-wheel-drive capabilities).
Yeah, we're bitter. But we'll get over it. Maybe. If it snows, for sure. But not until.
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Speaking of unfortunate circumstances, we received an interesting note and photo from Jon Harrington of Silverthorne. Jon and some buds were down in Costa Rica, and he filed this report:
In the peaceful village of La Fortuna, you will find many tourist activities. My Costa Rica national friends told me it is a very safe community. Within viewing distance of the Volcano Arenal, the scenery is tropical and lush. There are many international tourists partaking in the fun activities like zip lines, rafting, biking, and just soaking in hot springs resorts. You would never expect to get robbed.
That is just what happened to us. Unfortunately, even in La Fortuna there are crack heads and thieves. Upon checking in to the Hotel Jireh at the center of activity in the town, we were pleased to find they had a safe in our room. Our friends were not as fortunate, as the safe had been removed from their room.
As a safety precaution they had asked to put their valuables in our safe. With everything secured, we were off to the hot springs resort for a relaxing soak. The beautiful gardens and faux waterfalls hitting you with hot water and relaxing pools were just what we needed after the usual crazy drive through the countryside. Aside from getting a slight concussion in the high speed, insanely engineered waterslide, the experience was a tourist's dream.
We returned to Hotel Jireh shortly after dark and decided in our relaxed tourist manner to walk across the street to the Lava Lounge for a beer and dinner. Here is where it all went wrong. Since we feel we need some credit cards and phones to catch up on texts and calls, we all removed our iPhones and I took my wallet.
We had a great dinner at the Lava Lounge, but upon returning to our room we had quickly realized we had been robbed. The door was open, the safe door had been broken open. There were passports, credit cards and miscellaneous items scattered about the bed. We took quick account of what appeared to be missing and found Mari's cash, credit card, Colorado driver's license and Costa Rican photo ID were gone. Tim had $700 in cash in an envelope inside a ziplock that contained a toothbrush and other toiletries in the safe. They did not find the money, or realize a toothbrush does not warrant being locked in a safe, so it was left on the bed with the passports. We're talking crackheads here folks, not Mission Impossible.
Off to the Police station for a report ...
Well, that sucks! Although we have to say we love the detail about the crooks missing the $700 in cash. Dumb crooks!
Anyway, travelers be warned: Sleazy types exist in the nice places. Except Summit County, of course — the land of rainbows and unicorns.
(Sound of Sheriff John Minor laughing uproariously at us)
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The folks in our classifieds department wanted us to remind ya'll that A) Valentine's Day is coming up soon, so you'd better start preparing if you know what's good for you and 17) We'll be offering free Valentines messages in the Summit Daily News. On Valentine's Day we will publish our popular Valentine ‘Love Notes.' This year, the first 20 words are free for each note when you use our web form to place the note. Just go to summitdaily.com/valentine for more info or to place your note. Or for a small fee you can call it in- 668-9937 or e-mail it to classifieds@summitdaily.com
The deadline is Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m.
There you have it — get on it, doggonit!
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Well, here it is, Super Sunday! Go Pats! Go Giants! We live in Colorado but we've lived in N.Y. and New England, so we can't really pick sides here. We do hope for some kind of wacky score, though, to screw with the oddsmakers. Like N.Y. 6, New England 4 (Giants score only one touchdown and miss the extra point and the Pats get two safeties).
Actually, that'd be a pretty weird, boring game, so we'll go ahead and predict the final score will be 28 Pats, 21 Giants and Nicki Minaj loses an eye when Madonna has a wardrobe malfunction with her pointy brassiere.
That's it, folks, enjoy the show ...
Yeah, we're bitter. But we'll get over it. Maybe. If it snows, for sure. But not until.
***
Speaking of unfortunate circumstances, we received an interesting note and photo from Jon Harrington of Silverthorne. Jon and some buds were down in Costa Rica, and he filed this report:
In the peaceful village of La Fortuna, you will find many tourist activities. My Costa Rica national friends told me it is a very safe community. Within viewing distance of the Volcano Arenal, the scenery is tropical and lush. There are many international tourists partaking in the fun activities like zip lines, rafting, biking, and just soaking in hot springs resorts. You would never expect to get robbed.
That is just what happened to us. Unfortunately, even in La Fortuna there are crack heads and thieves. Upon checking in to the Hotel Jireh at the center of activity in the town, we were pleased to find they had a safe in our room. Our friends were not as fortunate, as the safe had been removed from their room.
As a safety precaution they had asked to put their valuables in our safe. With everything secured, we were off to the hot springs resort for a relaxing soak. The beautiful gardens and faux waterfalls hitting you with hot water and relaxing pools were just what we needed after the usual crazy drive through the countryside. Aside from getting a slight concussion in the high speed, insanely engineered waterslide, the experience was a tourist's dream.
We returned to Hotel Jireh shortly after dark and decided in our relaxed tourist manner to walk across the street to the Lava Lounge for a beer and dinner. Here is where it all went wrong. Since we feel we need some credit cards and phones to catch up on texts and calls, we all removed our iPhones and I took my wallet.
We had a great dinner at the Lava Lounge, but upon returning to our room we had quickly realized we had been robbed. The door was open, the safe door had been broken open. There were passports, credit cards and miscellaneous items scattered about the bed. We took quick account of what appeared to be missing and found Mari's cash, credit card, Colorado driver's license and Costa Rican photo ID were gone. Tim had $700 in cash in an envelope inside a ziplock that contained a toothbrush and other toiletries in the safe. They did not find the money, or realize a toothbrush does not warrant being locked in a safe, so it was left on the bed with the passports. We're talking crackheads here folks, not Mission Impossible.
Off to the Police station for a report ...
Well, that sucks! Although we have to say we love the detail about the crooks missing the $700 in cash. Dumb crooks!
Anyway, travelers be warned: Sleazy types exist in the nice places. Except Summit County, of course — the land of rainbows and unicorns.
(Sound of Sheriff John Minor laughing uproariously at us)
***
The folks in our classifieds department wanted us to remind ya'll that A) Valentine's Day is coming up soon, so you'd better start preparing if you know what's good for you and 17) We'll be offering free Valentines messages in the Summit Daily News. On Valentine's Day we will publish our popular Valentine ‘Love Notes.' This year, the first 20 words are free for each note when you use our web form to place the note. Just go to summitdaily.com/valentine for more info or to place your note. Or for a small fee you can call it in- 668-9937 or e-mail it to classifieds@summitdaily.com
The deadline is Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m.
There you have it — get on it, doggonit!
***
Well, here it is, Super Sunday! Go Pats! Go Giants! We live in Colorado but we've lived in N.Y. and New England, so we can't really pick sides here. We do hope for some kind of wacky score, though, to screw with the oddsmakers. Like N.Y. 6, New England 4 (Giants score only one touchdown and miss the extra point and the Pats get two safeties).
Actually, that'd be a pretty weird, boring game, so we'll go ahead and predict the final score will be 28 Pats, 21 Giants and Nicki Minaj loses an eye when Madonna has a wardrobe malfunction with her pointy brassiere.
That's it, folks, enjoy the show ...
