Ever since moving to Colorado, I have always had an infatuation with the mountains and there is nowhere better to see the mountains than in Boulder. There is something so beautiful about the mountains in every season, they can be magical in the fall with all the leaves turning colors it basically looks like an artist had perfectly painted the leaves to go with mountains. Sometimes in the spring in the summer the mountains are welcoming with the bright colors and the sun shining on the bright green patches of grass. But it is something about the mountains the winter is just mysterious-there is just something about the mountains in the winter that is just asking for them to be adventured.

So when my friends and I had an off day we couldn’t just pass up an opportunity to go to Boulder during the winter and explore.

Boulder has a unique charm and it is not too far from Denver so it became the perfect weekend escape for my friends and me. The first, stop in Boulder was Chautauqua park which is known for the beautiful views of the Flatirons, of course, we had to stop for a photo op seeing how the sun was out and it was absolutely gorgeous out so how could we pass up the opportunity for a good photo. We started our trek up the trail and although the sun was shining and it seemed like it was the perfect day for hiking, there was thick snow layered on the trail, and the farther we got up the trail we started to realize that the snow had turned ice and it was getting quite dangerous. So although we had a ton of falls we also had a ton of good laughs.

Next, we went down to Pearl Street to shop around at some of the cutest little boutiques that boulder has to offer, so many cute independent like Charlie’s T-shirts which has every single Colorado apparel T-shirt that you could possibly ever want, I love bringing my friends who are visiting Boulder for the first time there, and luckily my friend Lucas was with us so he grabbed a couple of long sleeves. The next one we went to is Ellison Rd, such a cute little boutique with all the latest fashions, but they only have three stores in the US and only one in Colorado so whenever I’m in Boulder I have to make sure that I visit it. 

But my favorite shop on Pearl Street is a little Bookstore, it’s something about the outside of the building maybe its the big gold letter or maybe it is the teal- but something about this book store makes me travel back in time. I could spend hours and hours in this book store it is really amazing, they have almost every and any book you could possibly think of. Every time I walk into that bookstore I feel like I have been transported to somewhere magical I feel like I can go anywhere there. And they have so many pockets to snuggle up and read a book. Unfortunately for me, my friends aren’t as many book lovers as I am so they were very ready to leave after I found my book.

We couldn’t end the day without trying one more thing that was new so we ended up driving 5 minutes from Pearl Street to go to a Japanese restaurant that serves sushi burrito-yes you read that right sushi burritos are a real thing. Motomaki the restaurant had so many different options of sushi burritos, it was a little overwhelming because sushi can be hard to pick in the first place but then also you are getting a huge sushi roll the size of a chipotle burrito- well it can just make the decision a little harder. But I took one bite of the shrimp tempura and mouth started to water it was good, and definitely something I would try in the future. Boulder isn’t that far of a trip for me, but I know whenever I go there I will always have a new and exciting experience, the unique city is always giving me a new surprise around every corner.