Valentine’s Day in Summit County, what a joke!
There are a lot of activities in Summit County any time of year.
Holidays are no exception. Valentine’s Day in Summit County held many options for sweethearts. Your choices included dining at one of many Summit County restaurants, ice skating at Keystone, or Valentine’s Day Comedy at the Silverthorne Pavilion.
Jason, my Valentine, and I had no reservations for dinner this Valentine’s Day. I wasn’t looking for anything extravagant and expected that the not-so-fancy restaurants wouldn’t be that busy. We worked a little bit later than anticipated so we were going to be eating later too, at nearly 7:00; prime time for dinner at the restaurants. Our first choice was Old Chicago in Silverthorne. I thought there might be some guys without girlfriends eating there but didn’t expect it to be a busy Valentine’s Day dinner kind of place. Boy was I wrong. The place was packed! If Old Chicago was packed I expected everywhere else would be too. As we were trying to decide what to do next we drove by Village Inn. Village Inn is the fail safe. When you can’t find a table anywhere else in Summit County, Village Inn always has several open. So we had our Valentine’s Day dinner at Village Inn. It was a good meal with no waiting. We finished it up in Valentine’s Day fashion, with one strawberry sundae topped with whipped cream and two spoons.
After dinner we headed to the Silverthorne Pavilion for the Valentine’s Day Comedy show. The comedians were Nora Lynch and Phil Palisoul; no one I had ever heard of before. Nora Lynch was on first. The humor was a little more crude than I was expecting but was still good for a few laughs. Then Phil Palisoul took the stage. Phil was hilarious! I was laughing so hard I was crying at one point during the performance. I know Jason was laughing hard too, I don’t think he was driven to tears like me, but definitely having a great time. I left wondering why I had never heard of this guy before. If you get a chance to see Phil Palisoul’s comedy act yourself, don’t let it pass you by. Make your evening a joke too!
This Valentine’s Day turned out to be one of my best Valentine’s Days ever. For less than the price of a bouquet of flowers, we both had a fun evening out and really enjoyed our time together. Isn’t that what Valentine’s Day is all about?
There’s no need to wait until a holiday to enjoy yourself in Summit County.
Activities are almost always going on somewhere. See a complete list of current activities in Summit County. A-Basin, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Dillon, Frisco, Keystone and Silverthorne are all represented on the calendar taking the hassle out of finding your next Summit County activity.
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February 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Yes, it was a great Valentine’s Day! The comedy show was good entertainment; I would certainly do it again.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Thats so funny Merideth, you described my valentines dinner experience exactly minus the comedy show. Thank goodness for Village Inn and the great quality and service Richard (manager) and his staff provide.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Yes Mike, what would we do without Village Inn on those crazy days?
By the way, you missed a great comedy show!