The Stanley Hotel

When we pulled up to the front of the white wooden hotel with the distinctive red roof, there was a wedding reception in one of the outbuildings. It's a beautiful hotel under an ominous mountain. Still, most people would probably choose a different place to start a marriage than where Stephen King wrote The Shining. I'll admit, while I sat in the wicker rocker watching the late afternoon sun move across that mountain and pondered how many layers of white paint you could put on a hotel built in 1909, I kind of thought it might be cool. And when Elias walked me up the recently-vacated aisle doing our best to step like Outkast in the "So Fresh, So Clean" video, it seemed a perfectly lovely place to start something.