Of small towns and fresh mountain beauty

Just returned from one of the most perfect weekends ever! I'm kind of sad to be back and going to classes again. Went to BV (where the boyfriend lives) from friday night- early this morning. It's a small mountain town 2 hours away from me. Now that you know that....
Friday night, we went to the high school football game. My cousin plays for the team and it was soo fun! We whooped them by almost 50 points. Good times.
Saturday he had to work so I hung out with him- you know, distracting him. I did some dishes too, so I was at least a little useful! That night we went to Salida (about 40 minutes away), it's slightly bigger than BV but not by much. We found a cute little family friendly place to have dinner. Amazing food! After that we went to a movie. See, we checked online and we there were 3 theaters between the 2 towns, and among all 3 theaters, we had a choice of a grand total of 3 movies. 2 of them were playing 1 movie and the other was playing 2 movies! (1 was a repeat in case you did the math). We chose the theather with 2 movies and walked there after dinner. When we got in, the guy selling tickets (and food, and drinks, and running the movie) was about our age and very friendly- he told us that we had to get 5 people in to watch the movie before he could sell us tickets. Sound a little strange to anyone else?! Well there was a perfectly good reason- about 5 minutes before the movie was supposed to start, there were only 3 of us there to watch it! He decided to wait 5 more minutes and just in time, another guy came. Unfortunetly that only made 4, so we told him he was only #4 and we needed 5. Being the knight in shining armor that he was, he said that he would buy 2 tickets. So, in we went! Odd experience, but fun none the less.
Sunday we went to a little church and then drove to Cottonwood Lake to look at the fall colors and take some pictures (see above picture). We got some really great pictures and I can't wait to share them!! As we were driving up the mountain all I could think was how incredible of an artist God is. Bright yellow's, vibrant reds, deep oranges... the hillsides were the normal green with patches of yellow (from a distance) sooo gorgeous! It's such an experience to be amidst one of His most beautiful works of art.
It was wonderful to be in such a peaceful place. There's hardly any traffic there (except tourists going to see trees!) and everyone waves to you. There isn't a grocery store near (you have to drive like 12 miles to get to the little city market) so you learn to get groceries while you're in town and then once you're home, you eat what's there. It was so nice not to always be thinking of what you wanted to go grab from the store. You obviously have to drive to get to a restarant too, and it was great to cook together for every meal of the weekend except for one. I really enjoyed being cell phone free (they don't work there) and not spending the weekend with anyone else but him. Someday I may live there! (That is if I can live without Target, Chipotle, and Starbucks!)