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Breckenridge, Colorado Ski Trip Review

Happy Weekend everyone! Today I’m sharing my recent Breckenridge, Colorado ski trip review. We planned the trip with some friends of ours within just a couple of weeks, but we researched a ton of cabins and condos before finally choosing our mountain top cabin via VRBO. We chose listing #765132 after reading that property offered a private hot tub plus the best views in Breckenridge, which is what sold me! Not to mention the fact that we had a huge kitchen and two large living area spaces along with enough beds and rooms for 10 people.

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When we arrived to our cabin after a rather frightening drive up a winding snowy mountain, we found that the cabin definitely lived up to its title of “best views in Breckenridge.” The views from all of our oversized windows were absolutely breathtaking as you can see in these photos. The cabin also came with the coziest fireplace in the living room and get this…heated floors! We were almost never cold in our cabin! In fact, most nights we didn’t even sleep with blankets over us.

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As for the one downside of our cabin, we weren’t able to walk to town. We had to take one of our rental cars or a shuttle to both to town and the slopes, which was sort of inconvenient at times when we were out of things like milk or bottled water. No one wanted to have to drive all the way down the mountain once we returned home for the day. On top of that, I personally didn’t feel comfortable driving down the mountain alone so I always had to convince someone to come with me. All in all, that was a very minute negative factor of our cabin and everything else was great. However, it’s definitely something we’ll keep in mind for next time especially if we have less people.

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One last negative thing I want to touch on and this has nothing to do with our actual cabin is the way high altitudes and dry air make you feel. No one truly warned me how different my body would feel. All they said was to drink plenty of water and I literally drank 10-12 bottles of water day and I was still left with dry mouth and a headache. Also, simple tasks like lacing up my boots or walking down half a flight of stairs had me out of breath and feeling exhausted. I was still able to have fun of course. The high altitude situation was just a really big adjustment that I wasn’t aware I was going to have to make, which made sleeping difficult more than anything else. Will I go back? Absolutely! I’m just going to be more prepared next time with kleenex, cough drops, Mucinex and a humidifier. I know I may sound like a diva, but I have really aggressive allergies so I think the dry air affected me more so than it would a person without bad allergies.

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P.S. Most of these photos were taken with my iPhone so please excuse the quality!

Fall, Flannel & Faux Fur

Fall, Flannel and Faux Fur–the three things I look forward to every November. Well, those things along with hot chocolate, bonfires, s’mores, pumpkin spice lattes, crunchy leaves, cozy scarves, chunky sweaters…need I go on? I know, I pretty much covered it all, but today’s post is mostly about the flannel and faux fur, which I pretty much live in during the fall. I found my entire outfit at Abercrombie & Fitch from the ankle boots and distressed jeans to the plaid flannel shirt and shearling lined parka. The parka even comes with a removable faux fur hood, which I love since it rarely gets cold enough down south where I live. However, it’s perfect for the chilly weather in NYC while I’m visiting for a fun blogger event. l’m totally enjoying this crisp cold weather right now considering it’s fall and the temps stayed in the high 70s all last week back home in Louisiana. Ridiculous, I know!

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Jewelry: Soho Ring c/o Julie Vos | Hammer Cuff & Open Ring c/o Porter Lyons Designs 

Good Morning readers, in case you missed by Instagram post, I experienced quite an eventful morning at the airport yesterday. It all started when I went to check in for my flight to NYC at the New Orleans airport only to realize that I was an entire day early for my flight! However, I had plans in NYC for last night so I had to get myself on that flight. That was of course a $500 travel change! Awesome way to start the day, right? To top it all off, I tripped while rushing through security and flew through the air with my arms trapped in the strap of the bag. Thank goodness that my bag broke my fall, but the embarrassing part was that I was on a ramp so I shamefully slid down the ramp on top of my bag like penguin until I finally stopped. This all of course led to led to a dramatic laugh/cry when five people came to the rescue. I wasn’t hurt, just super embarrassed, but I did get a really good laugh out of it at least!