This year the Manitou Springs annual Carnivale Parade & Mumbo Jumbo Cookoff falls on Saturday, February 13th! Which means that a careful romantic can entertain his sweetie with a host of Fat-Tuesday-falls-on-Saturday festivities, stagger back to our conveniently-located inn AND wake up on Sunday, VALENTINE’S DAY, to a hot breakfast delivered to your suite. Not bad, huh? In addition, if you book two (or more) days at Blue Skies, you can take advantage of our Winter Specials – 2nd night half price, or three nights for the price of two!

Here are some pictures courtesy of Steve Garufi, the ColoradoGuy!

 Here’s more information from the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce website:

Description: Fabulous Chefs competing with their secret recipes! Gumbo begins cooking at 8:00 am. Public tasting will follow the judging (10:45 am) 2 tastings for a dollar! There is no entry fee for contestants and winners will receive cash prizes & trophies. Competition is limited to 18 entries & pre-registration is required. Contestant entry applications are due to the Manitou Chamber by 5 pm on Friday, February 5th. Carnivale Parade is in Downtown Manitou following the cook-off. For information on the parade you may contact
Jack Elder at 685-9127. 
Location: Soda Springs Park & Parade on Manitou Avenue

Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Time: 8:00am-1:00pm MST
Duration: 5 hours 
Access: Public