Rachel's First Adventure

We understand that there are a lot of "firsts" that are going to happen in our daughters life and we will try and not bore you with every "first" that she has but this one was of note because it was the "first" time out of the house. Teresa's brother, Jeff, comes into town every week for work and his company insists that he stays at the nicest hotels in the city and eats at the nicest restaurants. Well they just opened a Ritz Carlton about three weeks ago in downtown Denver. So last week Jeff was staying there and this time stayed an extra night so we decided to drive down and go to dinner with him. We ate at Elways (and if your wondering yes it is John Elway's restaurant, Denver-ites are obsessed with this guy)which was in the hotel and than we went up to his room at the Ritz. It was super nice and Rachel was great the whole time. Slept for most of her "first" outing and when she was awake she was quiet and very observant of everything around her. It was also Teresa's and my "first" time going to the Ritz are we are pretty sure we will never be staying there, unless one of us starts working for Jeff's company. We also are comforted that Rachel isn't old enough to understand this luxury so we don't have to worry about her growing up and always expecting this..er..Paris Hilton. For all she knows we went to Burger King and hung out with her Uncle at the Howard Johnson.