I didn't have time to post the last night, therefore I'm posting this late as this occurred yesterday (Sat 9/15/12).
We were up in Estes Park this weekend and went to get a drink at The Stanley Hotel. This famous hotel is a 140-room neo-Georgian hotel located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including the RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and a variety of Hollywood personalities. The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Stanley Hotel also hosted the horror novelist Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining. Contrary to information sometimes published, King was living in Boulder at the time and did not actually write the novel at the hotel. Parts of the mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, although Stanley Kubrick's cinematic version was filmed at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon and at Elstree Studios in England. The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubrick's The Shining on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.
We had a drink in Cascades. I got a Redrum Punch, a pineapple-flavored drink spiked with several types of rum (1 of which Redrum Rum). They also serve Redrum Ale from Estes Park Brewery. The word Redrum is in The Shining. Redrum is Murder spelled backwards.
What did you do today?
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