Every Sunday morning Vail Village turns into what is billed as a farmer's market. While pursuing the Vale Daily, Pleep spotted the adverts for endless mimosas, wine tasting, craft beers and other goodies. He suggested a nice walk through the market would be good exercise so the whole crew headed over.
There were blocks and blocks of tents offering a lot of food and beverage options but very limited produce. One tent was roasting New Mexican green chiles from Hatch. Pleep made a beeline for that vendor insisting that we acquire several bags of the medium heat Big Jims. Ed agreed noting we could brew up a large batch of green chile stew for our hosts. Pleep pointed out that this excercise would require a quantity of Colorado IPA's because cleaning and dicing that many chiles was hard work.
While we explored the market, Pleep kept wandering off. Ed knew where to look for him every time - any tent that offered tasting adult beverages. Pleep's favorite was the Tattinger champagne tent. In between sampling the beverages, he was also busy sampling freshly made salsas, breads, tamales, Bavarian pretzels, and other homemade goods. Surprisingly, we finally found Pleep hanging out at the charity duck race booth where he was trying to convince the Rotary Club that monkeys would be a much better choice than ducks. 
An interesting booth was one a wine tasting tent where they were also making S'Mores. After close inspection, Pleep declared these were lame S'Mores becaause they had skimped on the chocolate. However, because they were offering free tastings, he felt it was worth a stop.
We ended the adventure at the Eagle Bahn gondola at Lionshead. Peggy picked up the trail map while Pleep checked out the Born Free Express lift. He figured that meant monkeys were allowed to ride the lifts for free. Just as he was about to argue his case, the Blue Moose caught his eye. Thinking it would be a good idea to check the place out and report back to Delete, he diverted just in time to avoid a sudden thunderstorm.
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