"How it Started" or "How Hannah Got Her Ring"

Some of you may already know this; a lot of people don't who might be reading our blog.  Hannah has an allergy to metal and cannot wear jewelry; the rivets in jeans can cause a small rash.  When a young woman is to be married and cannot wear any kind of conventional ring it can cause quite the conundrum.  So we decided that we would get tattoo rings as a symbol of our marriage.  That was until we went to Silver Dollar City, Missouri.   We went to SDC with another couple and while the girls were looking at baskets or something my friend Big Joe and I went to watch the blacksmith work.

http://www.silverdollarcity.com/

Joe and I were looking though the wares that the blacksmith had out and we saw a basket of rings made out of nails.  They were something like a couple of bucks and we each had one sized to our fingers.  The girls thought they were silly, that is until they got to looking at them.  That night Hannah kept going on about wanting to get one.  After some discussion about the fact she can't wear metal, I told her that it was only a couple of dollars and if she wanted one we would just get her one.  The next day we went straight to the blacksmith and had her fitted;  she didn't know that I was going to use this opportunity to propose to her and make it official.

To Hannah's delight I proposed to her in the square at Silver Dollar City and she got her ring; we thought that she would start to break out and have to keep it in her pocket.  However, much to our surprise, she didn't break out!  Turns out that she can wear iron as jewelry!   Also, this meant that Hannah got to finally wear a ring after all this time.  That is the short story of how Hannah found out what kind of metal she can wear and in the process got herself engaged in the bargain.

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

I have decided to to highlight a place that I want to stop into and go into some of it's history and today's location is Casa Bonita Mexican restaurant. Casa Bonita was featured in an episode of South Park (Season 7 Episode 11) and was opened in Lakewood, CO in 1974 and has been a staple in family fun eating.  For those of you that don't know about it, think Showbiz pizza with a Mexican theme.  A lot of people will question the wisdom of eating cheap Mexican while on a motorcycle trip; not to worry, we won't be far from our first stop; Frisco, CO.

See the town here:  http://www.townoffrisco.com