Arvada is a friendly, hisoric community located about midway between Denver and Boulder, in Jefferson County.

The folks at HOTA (Historic Old Towne Arvada) have created another fun annual event - the Ladies Only Sample Tour.  With the participation of vendors such as Penzey's Spices, the Bead Connection, Bliss Cafe, Into the Fire and more, ladies are invited to spend an early evening strolling the historic streets, collecting samples from each shop.

I attended with my daughter, Amanda, and her mother-in-law, Linda, and sister-in-law, Summer.  We wore ourselves out and had a great time.  Here's a photo of some of our 'stash'. Amanda especially enjoyed visiting the Army-Navy store, because she used to shop for 'cool stuff' back when she was in middle school.  We all felt it was a shame the Harley store didn't participate - surely they could have come up with something fun to get us to stop in!

The same event is held in Littleton, Morrison, and Denver.  Unfortunately, they're all at the same time so you have to pick one. Linda and Summer live in Littleton, so we'll probably hit that one up next year!

You do have to buy a wrist band for $12.50 each.  Overall, what you get makes the cost worth it, but some stores did skimp and hand out only a cheesy coupon. (tsk, tsk!!)  But most of the shop owners were very pleasant to meet, and went out of their way to make us want to come back again.

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