Panorama of the Rockies from King Sooper’s Car Park
Our first couple of days in Colorado Springs have been quite quiet. Mainly due to the fact that neither of us have felt particularly well, with me winning in terms of feeling the most rubbish.
Saturday morning saw us taking advantage of the free hot breakfast available in the hotel. There’s a mix of bread, pastries, cereal, fruit and a choice of hot items such as sausages and potato rosti. And there’s a waffle iron and pre-made waffle mix for making your own waffles. Bet you can’t guess who got stuck in there?
After we got back to the suite, I found I was feeling a little strange: kind of disorientated, unfocussed and not really able to walk in a straight line. And before you jump to the wrong conclusions, the only alcohol I’ve had all trip was the mini white wine on the plane over. As usual Google was our friend and these are all symptoms of mild altitude sickness. Here at Colorado Springs we are around 1.5 times the height of Ben Nevis.
We decided that the best plan was to take it easy and drink plenty of water as per the website recommendations so we had a take-out lunch from the Italian restaurant over the way. We had a gentle pootle out in the afternoon to the golf shop but I in particular started to feel jolly strange in the tummy department and came over in that kind of cold sweat that tells you to return to your hotel forthwith. So we did.
We’re not sure if it was something we’d both eaten (can’t think of anything which might have been “dodgy”) or a bug or a reaction to the altitude but we’ve both had unhappy tummies with mine having been seriously unhappy. To the point I’ve been tied to the hotel room. Dinner was a plain biscuit and I didn’t even manage to eat a whole one.
By Sunday I started feeling a bit better – although the tummy was still playing up – so we managed a quick trip to the supermarket to buy something for lunch. Linda had recommended chicken noodle soup with crackers and that’s exactly what we had. A tub of homemade chicken and vegetable noodle soup with saltines. It was lovely but I had to eat my bowl of soup in two goes. I must have been pretty off colour to be off my food!
It has been really handy having the kitchenette as this meant we could buy soup for reheating without having to venture out into a restaurant. Susie was allowed to drive by herself in the evening (I did offer to accompany her) to go to King Soopers to buy a couple of potatoes so we could microwave them and have with cheese for supper. She did superbly and only missed the turning back to the hotel once!
It’s now Monday morning and I’m feeling a lot better. Quite floppy and tiring easily but I think that’s due to hardly having eaten over the last 48 hours. We’ve had some breakfast and are now having tea and coffee back in the suite prior to planning the day.
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