Thursday, September 14, 2006

Alright! Denver, Colorado. Here is to a busy and good first day. Got up about 8am after forcing myself to sleep that late. I actually woke up at 5:30am but I said hell no! Go back to sleep! After a crazy phone call with a man that barely spoke English, my rental car arrived about 8:30am. Woo hoo for the Jeep! I love it and they knocked off about $130 bucks off the cost. Shit yeah. Willow and I headed straight out for coffee and tea. Who ever heard of dry or wet cappuchino? Craziest damn question I ever heard. Then showers all around. Next, Willow decided that he was buying Mary and Ken a big tv for their wedding present. Guess he was tired of watching on a smaller tv. So off to Best Buy, then Walmart. At Walmart we got a 32 inch tv, 4 pumpkins, 3 coffee mugs and a loaf of bread. Where else could you buy such random stuff in one stop? Next stop, my first meal at Sonic. Yay watermelon slushie! Back to the house, unload and set up the tv. Ken decided he wanted a tv stand so back out we went. We decided to do it up college style and headed for the home depot. Got cinder blocks and particle board-hell yeah. Spent the next hour or so making sure the tv and stand were all set up good. A nice little thunderstorm blew up about then. It was awesome being able to see the whole storm so well because the land is so flat with no trees. From the second floor of the house I could see the downdraft from the storm blowing up dust from a couple of miles away. That was cool. Almost 3pm by then, Ken was having band practice so Willow and I headed out to Red Rocks. That place is awesome! I have to see a concert there, it was amazing. Built into the side of the mountain with those famous huge red rocks along the sides. We started at the bottom and walked up the mountain side ampitheater steps. Bad idea. Altitude anyone? Holy shit, I was so out of breath at the top it was unreal. Willow almost passed out, his 2 pack a day smoking self. There was a neat hall of fame with lots of pictures of people that performed there inside the visitors center. Then it started raining so we hurried back down to the jeep. Of course as soon as we got to the car it stopped raining. So we drove around the park, took lots of pictures and just generally got swept away by the scenery. Great views of the plains. Oh yeah, and a rainbow! I haven't seen a rainbow in ages. Beautiful. Then as we were leaving we noticed a place across the street on a smaller foothill that had fossils and stuff. Dinosaur fossils and tracks. That was pretty damn cool too. I haven't seen stuff like that outside of museums. Back home again by 7pm and ordered pizza for dinner. Mary should get home about 10pm tonight. Yay Mary!

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