World Traveler: Colorado Edition- Part 1

So turns out that if you're an Aggie Catholic you might be in jeopardy of moving to Denver.

Its trending.

Since I didn't move to Colorado this year, I made up for it by visiting.

Originally the plan was that I was going to come on MLK weekend so that way Adge and Kyr would have work off on Monday giving us 3 lucious days together.  Being the champion I am, I assumed the MLK was on the 21 of January because in college we always went back to school after Christmas break the Tuesday after MLK and it was almost like the 19th or 20th so I just went with that.


Turns out I was wrong.   MLK was last week in case you missed it.  So I still went to CO ...and everything worked out just wonderfully!


It went a little something like this:

Friday:
I made it to the airport around 11:15 for my 1:00 flight.  I sat next to a really cute couple that had just gone on vacation to Costa Rica ( ! ) and were on their way back to Colorado.

When I landed in Denver I made my way to collect my bag... and then Adrienne made her grand appearance at passenger pick up and the adventures began!  We came back to her house to discover a Kyrstyn, just-a-piddling around. :o) After dropping off bags, getting a tour of the house and meeting some roommates we were off the Jason and Tyler's house for some more Aggie Catholic reunioning.  They were jamming in the basement when we arrived (naturally) and after some hugs and shrugs we dined on a shmorgishborg of venison, grilled cheese and "candied chestnuts." Tasted like victory.


The rest of the night consisted of some gaming... a little Taboo (total female domination) and a little Settlers... (less female domination).  Then it was goodnight.

Saturday:
This day was deemed park day so we made our way to Washington park to have a go at being active like the Colorado-ites do!  Jason bummed his ankle playing rugby while the three ladies took a lovely few laps around the park.  There were approximately 1 million dogs, none of which were the same breed.  The pond was also partially frozen, which was mostly awesome.

Tyler arrived and it was bocce time.  Classic.  I imagine the game would have been much for fun and a million times more sanitary if the geese hadn't felt the need to mark the entire park as their territory. We're talking a geese feces fiasco.  Geese + feces = Geeces.  It. Was. Everywhere.  including out bocce balls.  This really didn't inhibit playing that much.  "oops"

Around 2:30  we realized we hadn't eaten lunch so made our way over to Spanky's near the beautiful DU campus.  Spanky's : Home of a hamburger sandwiched between two grilled cheese sandwiches.

After lunch we stopped at the seminary to drop off some books at the library.  Turns out the Denver seminary is gorgeous.

These are vestments made with real gold... the sign said they are really heavy!

  Then we were back at the house to shower and get ready for the evening. Mrs. Lafitte (!!) came over, as well as Jason and we headed to downtown Littleton. 

We were greeted with this...

It was so BEAUTIFUL! I kept running around saying I felt like we were in Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls.  All the shops looked really cute, but they were all closed.  But I did find me a pottery store to work at in case I ever end up here !

We walked around a bit while I freaked out at how much I loved it ...

Then things got interesting.  The place we wanted to eat had a really long wait to we ended up at Jose's.  This little Mexican restaurant look really nice on the outside with its super legit sign.  Turns out the sign was the only legitimate part.

Here are our chips we paid $1.50 for...

and our waters... that came half full and with coffee stirrer straws....

Jason asked for that carafe of water so we could refill our own since they seemed to be a little over protective of the h20.


I ordered fajitas and kyr ordered quesadillas.... heres what we got...

"fajitas"

"quesadillas"

Kyr quesadillas had ground beef in it that made Taco Bell food look like it came from Whole Foods.  She ate one bite and was done.  That single bite may have taken its revenge on her as she was sick for the next two days... .


Jason left us so we went on a hunt for "treats" to appease Stephanie and Adge. We ended up at Corner Bakery and after Steph suggested we get our treats for free since they were just going to throw them out when then closed we ended up with 5 free goodies to eat !

Eventually the Corner was trying to close so we let them be and went on our merry little way !

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