Day 3 in Steamboat

Today Kacie didn’t have to start shooting the house until lunch time, so we got to go out to breakfast in town and hit some shops. We still got up pretty early since she had a zoom call at 10:15… which is 8:15 here. Once they finished up, we headed to The Egg. Yup, they specialize in eggs and breakfast. She got something fancy, I think Eggs Benedict with crab, and I got a ham and cheese omelette. Everything was good, one of the better omelettes I’ve had anyway.

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After breakfast we headed downtown to hit a few shops. Right around the corner we found a cool shop that specialized in jewelry and fossils, called the Jewelry and Fossil Shop, very creative. Weird combo but an awesome shop. We would’ve bought everything if we could, they even had Megaladon teeth for about $150. They really had some cool stuff for rich people.

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Then we hit a sock shop, yes, they pretty much just sold socks. They don’t have a website, but they did have a lot of socks. Kacie wanted to get some plush, comfy socks for wondering around the house since you can’t wear shoes inside there. I don’t blame them, even the floors are incredible. After buying socks and a couple cool masks, her’s is a flowery number and mine was an eagle shaded in with an American flag, we went down the street and found a hat shop, Steamboat Hat Shop. Here they sold only hats, a lot of very specialized shops in town here. There I bought a cool Colorado hat we both agreed on. Unfortunately by now, we were out of time. We spent a lot of time in the fossil shop… so we headed back to the hotel to pick up the camera and gear.

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Once I dropped her off, I headed back up north to Steamboat and Pearl Lakes, which were only a couple miles up from where I was the day before in Clark. In Colorado you have to pay for a pass to visit state parks, so I had to stop in at the visitor’s center at Steamboat Lake. $9 bucks just to drive around and check the lakes out. Being from PA and checking out at least half of our state parks, it blew my mind to have to pay for a state park, but you have to pay for everything up here. It was worth it, I had them both basically to myself and the scenery was amazing.

Steamboat Lake is huge. You can’t boat on either lake right now, not sure why, probably Covid, but it was too cold for kayaking anyway. There were a few coves at Steamboat Lake that you could drive to and check it out from different angles, I hit all of them. It might have also been that the roads up there were all dirt and I had a big truck to drive around in…

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Pearl Lake is not even close to the size of Steamboat, but it’s much more impressive. Where Steamboat Lake is out in the open with flat land surrounding it, Pearl is surrounded by tree covered mountains. It’s also even more secluded, meaning there literally was no one else there. I just kind of stood there for a while and took it all in.

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While James was checking out the sites, I pressed on with the photos. We finished up all of the day time shots and then ordered dinner to eat in the house. James came over for the '“family dinner” after picking up our salads from Slopeside Grill. They were good and it was nice to have something semi-healthy on vacation where I usually just eat junk.

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After dinner we did a few more shots where outside light wasn’t a priority. We had to wait about 45 min for the sun to go down and we could take our nighttime shots. I actually got to watch part of the first football game of the season. From the sound of it, the beginning was the most exciting part. Once the sun went down enough, we took the rest of what we needed to finish up our photo set. I will still go back in the morning to make sure we have what we need and take some more artistic angles. It sounds like that will be a quick day and we will be able to get on our way to our next stop in the Colorado tour earlier than expected!

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