Sun Valley

May 28 ~31

Sun Valley is charming.  The Resort is picture perfect....lovely inn, beautiful shops carrying everything from Blahnik to Prada, a fabulous outdoor theater pavillion and their famous open year-round ice rink.

 This is Memorial Day Weekend although it sure doesn't look or feel like it outside...yes, that is hail and sleet  on the car window. 

A Wellness Weekend is being hosted by the resort consisting of lectures, symposiums and whatnot; including a keynote address by Jamie Lee Curtis.  But the real action is in the variety of volleyball tournaments; from kids teams to the pro beach variety.

We learn the weekend has been created to drive traffic to the resort in between seasons which unfortunately we have managed to catch once again.  The outdoor summer ice shows featuring the sports' biggest stars doesn't start until mid-June along with the summer concert series.  Would have loved to have seen that ice show.

We share Kobe Sliders and fries at Duchin's lounge at the Resort.  They're terrific....unfortunately we're eating rather early because we skipped lunch...music starts at 8:30, but just can't hang out that long.

The adjacent town of Ketchum is adoraable.  Lovely very high-end shops.  But what I loved most is the local grocery market...Atkinson's....it doesn't  look fancy, but what a wonderful assortment of fresh, prepared and unusual foods.....we stocked up.  Next door is another great store....Ketchum Kitchen.  It is so full of wonderful kitchen things you don't know where to look first.

It's just too cold and windy to play golf, but visited the resort course and pro shop.  The shop is one of the nicest I've seen in a long time, great merchandise and merchandising.

We really like it here, but the weather is too miserable and most things we'd like to do are outdoor things.  The place we are staying, The Meadows, ( no website) is far from luxurious, but it's really the only game in. Very convenient....only a mile or so to town, has a view of the hills if you pick your site facing the road, backs up to a fishing stream, a great bike trail and is run by a extremely pleasant couple. But it's very bare bones and not the kind of place we want to linger. We will leave in the morning and try Coeur d'Alene and hopefully get a break with the weather.