[speaker001:] where have you been on a wonderful vacation
[speaker002:] well normally when we go on vacation we go home to Colorado
[speaker001:] oh that's where we go home too
[speaker002:] really yeah Colorado Springs is where we're from
[speaker001:] that's where we go
[speaker002:] how funny
[speaker001:] yes my husband's family lives just off of Academy Boulevard at Maizeland yes
[speaker002:] really we live up up uh Lake in the Broadmoor area
[speaker001:] ah
[speaker002:] where my family my in-laws are
[speaker001:] oh we've been there we haven't skied at Broadmoor we went there last year at Christmas time and it was twenty seven below so we had to cancel our ski lessons
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh as you can't even ski there anymore
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] yeah they closed it down
[speaker001:] oh just this year
[speaker002:] uh-huh they don't have enough money to keep it going it doesn't doesn't pay so
[speaker001:] oh my ah so that wouldn't be a good spot to go on a vacation now if you were a skier
[speaker002:] well yeah and well now I don't know now Colorado Springs is real accessible to like Breckenridge it's only a couple of hours away and uh so it's it might not be too bad if you wanted to go skiing somewhere else but you can't can't ski up there any more so
[speaker001:] uh-huh no
[speaker002:] oh uh I'd like to go on vacation I can't my husband and I wanna go to Florida to go to Disney World but we have two little ones that are under two right now so we wanna wait until they're a little bit older to do that and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes oh well we went on a family cruise last year on the Premier Family Cruise Line and then we went to Disney it was all part of the package
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and on the cruise ship they had Mickey and Minnie and Chip and Dale and Goofy and Donald Duck and it was really oriented toward little kids
[speaker002:] well how fun
[speaker001:] so the kids could eat with Chip and Dale you know and you know it's just a lot of fun
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh I bet
[speaker001:] so then we were on the cruise for three days in the Bahamas and then landed at Cape Canaveral and then drove over to Orlando and spent four days at Disney
[speaker002:] wow well that sounds pretty neat
[speaker001:] yes that was the way to travel
[speaker002:] yeah that sounds pretty good and it was all a big package deal where you just pay one price and get everything
[speaker001:] yes yes that's right that's right and kids are really cheaper too
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] we really lucked out because the ship we were supposed to be on developed engine trouble two days before our cruise so they said we could either cancel reschedule or take whatever was available so we took whatever was available and we left a day early and they put us up at the Cocoa Beach Hilton and the ship that was available the only uh rooms that hadn't been booked were the suites
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] so we got the suites at the same price as a regular cabin
[speaker002:] oh what a deal
[speaker001:] yeah so then our cruise was actually extended a day and our Disney was extended a day so we turned a seven day trip into ten
[speaker002:] great
[speaker001:] and they paid for everything
[speaker002:] well that's great oh
[speaker001:] yes so that was a wonderful vacation
[speaker002:] yeah I bet uh that sounds like the way I'd wanna do it I think
[speaker001:] yes well what kind of things do you like to do when you go to Colorado
[speaker002:] oh well we like to ski of course so we spend so much time with our families uh and seeing our friends because we moved to Texas about two years ago
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] so when we go back we are just jam packed full of people to see and things to do so we don't we don't get a lot of time to just vacation we did um last year though go to San Antonio for Memorial Day
[speaker001:] yeah oh
[speaker002:] which was fun just to get to kind of walk around and see the sights down there and do that kind of thing
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh but you know other other than that with with both my kids being under two it's real hard to do any any kind of
[speaker001:] right that would be
[speaker002:] events that that uh don't require babysitting
[speaker001:] yes I know I think one of the places I always hit in Colorado is that current outlet store
[speaker002:] yeah that's funny you should funny you should mention that I just got my catalog this morning and was looking through it
[speaker001:] that's what oh with the Santa Claus on the cover yes I've already ordered from that one but we will probably be going up at Thanksgiving this year so
[speaker002:] uh-huh  oh do you live where do you what state are you in
[speaker001:] Texas
[speaker002:] oh you're in Texas
[speaker001:] yes I'm in the Dallas area
[speaker002:] so am I
[speaker001:] in Plano
[speaker002:] I'm in Garland yeah
[speaker001:] uh so that's not too far
[speaker002:] I talked to somebody from Wisconsin or something the other day yeah so I guess they get people from all over yeah driving for Thanksgiving that's going to be quite a drive for
[speaker001:] oh yes well it was when we left last year we left on the eighteenth right before that big snow storm hit Colorado and we pulled in just as it hit
[speaker002:] uh-huh wow
[speaker001:] so how do you go do you go up through the Raton Pass when you go up there
[speaker002:] uh no Raton uh oh well wait a minute yeah we do we do
[speaker001:] do you that's on like Route 287 or something like that
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum and then we go straight up through Trinidad and straight up I-25 from there
[speaker001:] okay okay we uh went a different way when we went last Christmas because of bad weather and because we were pulling a little U-Haul trailer because we had to take our dog in the car there was no room for luggage so we went all interstate we went up um through Oklahoma City
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then up through uh Kansas and then turned left and went in on I-70
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and it wound up only taking us about an extra hour it was a little more mile wise
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but because you could go sixty five miles an hour on the