Pagosa Springs

Today is the day! Time to relax and play. We get up early and walk into town for breakfast. Its snowing! All around us flakes of snow slowly descend bring a magic to an already exotic place. After breakfast Sybil & Susan head off for their massage and mud wrap. Henry & I get to relax and catch up on reading and internet sites. We get a call a while later and join Sybil & Susan in the middle pool, it is hot but not too hot, maybe we should call it the ‘baby bear’ pool--just right. After an afternoon nap, what a luxury, we hike around the natural pools along the river where the mineral water emerges. We get a recommendation on a place for dinner and it is a winner. It is the Pagosa Brewery and in addition to a wide range of beers produced on the site they have fresh salmon fish and chips, draft root beer and other great food. It is also a fund raiser for the local United Way so it is packed and a real party atmosphere despite being just late afternoon on a weekday. And then, even better we get a recommendation for desert and it is so good that we mentally mark the Alley House as a place we will not miss should we ever get back here. Sybil reflected on how lucky she feels to be alive in this place. How many people are hungry in the world and how many people will never get to visit places as wonderful as this. It is a good day for her and a good day for all of us.