Boulder!

It was a gorgeous day, the girls had woken up fairly late, and we were itching to do something new. So we decided to go up to Boulder last Sunday, and it turned out to be a great day to do it--gorgeous weather *and* a street arts and crafts fair!

We went down to Pearl Street which has, over about three blocks, a pedestrian only area, which is where the street fair was set up. They've got these little tulip gardens everywhere, and the colors were just beautiful.

After taking a tour of the whole area to see what all there was, we went back to this little rock garden where kids were climbing around so the girls could get out of the stroller for a while.

This is PJ checking out the feeling of the little pebbles on her feet. She eventually took both shoes off, then walked over to me and asked me to put them back on. Abby, on the other hand, was running all over the place barefoot!

In front of this play area was an interesting gentleman playing violin, barefoot, in a white tux:

He was amazing, and the girls--Abby especially, who really does seem to have a real appreciation for music--were enthralled.

After that we had a very yummy snack at Haute Cupcake, home of the famous (really--it was featured on one of those Food Network shows)...

Bacon-Topped Cupcake! Maple cake, chocolate frosting, and bacon crumbles. And it's really, really good.

I got PJ a cake pop (a cake ball on a stick covered in chocolate) but she didn't like it. (It wasn't *that* great, but it *was* chocolate and cake, so it certainly wasn't awful.) So I ate hers and gave her some of my classic vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. It was the sprinkles she was after, really.

Abby got a strawberry cupcake with strawberry frosting and wow, it was goooood.

Look at that cake! So pink! So yummy!

It was a really fun day, and I have to say I really liked Boulder. Lots of fun shops on Pearl Street, and Dan and I have it on our list of places to go for a day trip once we can leave the girls that long with Mom and Dad. It's got that great college town vibe going on, too--there were all sorts of little quartets and duets of college kids performing amidst the art stalls. Definitely a fun place to spend an afternoon--can't wait to do it again!