Day 318

Wednesday, 9/21/2011

When you're a teacher you have regular old days, amazing days, and DAYS (said in a deep highly emphasized tone)!!! (That's what I call those ones that make me wanna scream...)

Today was a DAY. But one of my students, Z, brought me this adorable bracelet. I LOVE it! It made my whole day....

Day 317

Tuesday, September 20th

Wanted to "pretty-up" the house. Bought some lavender flowers with some spriggy orange ones, separate you wouldn't think they'd go together, threw them together and....joila! New centerpiece!

Day 316

Monday, September 19th

Losing a little bit of L-Bs has made my pants drag on the ground a little more. The draggy pants get "slightly" dirty and rub all over my feetsies. My classroom floor and our playground must be hideously dirty. I cannot believe it was this bad.

Day 315

Sunday, September 18th

Last day in CO. So sad. We got a late start, so, instead of eating an awesome breakfast as planned, we headed to the game! Today was all about exploring Coors Field. While nothing can beat AT&T's views and atmosphere, I was DIGGING on Coors Field. It has 3 restaurants, one of which we chilled in for 2 innings, a spot to see straight down into the bullpen (WILSON!), and the Rockpile (where our tickets were-waaaaay up in Heaven). Plus, seats were empty so we upgraded for 3 innings, then headed up to the 3rd deck to take our pic at the "Mile High line". I love the baseball+sister+boyfriend+awesome stadium+beer combo we had going on. Just wish I could've added brother, mom, Leo, and dad. The last pic is the sun setting from the airport-sigh.

Day 314

Saturday, September 17th

Work first, then play! Steph taught dance, I turned in benchmark data, and Joseph slept. But then, we were out and about again! We went to this little village, and went on the Alping Slide. You take a ski lift up and then slide down on a plastic sled! Awesome!

We continued with our outdoor adventures with a trip to Lookout Mountain and checked out Buffalo Bill's grave site-beautiful views! We got our 1st taste of Colorado's skitzophrenic weather...it started dumping rain and we saw thunder and lightning storms!

After a quick hike on Dinosaur Ridge-with NO dinosaur bones, (turns out we hiked Hogback-wrong ridge), we headed to the Disneyland of liquor stores-TIPSY's LIQUOR WORLD!!! We got to buy our beer and do some wine/beer/liquor tasting while we were at it!

Dinner and the game at LODO's, a beer and some pinball with Chris at Buffalo Boyd's, and finally ended the night at FuNuGuyz-(fuh-new-geez to locals, Fun-you-guys to me)!!! Skeeball, punching bag, shuffleboard, and some dancing...then we were spent! Great 2nd day!

Day 313

Friday, September 16th

Where to begin???? How about with sleeping through the alarm at 3:30 in the morning and missing our ride to the airport??? How 'bout waking up, calling the taxi-dude, showering, zipping up my suitcase that wasn't fully packed, throwing carry-on stuff in a backpack, getting to the airport and waiting in the loooongest security lines EVER, and being the 2nd to last peeps on the plane???

Anyway, we got to Colorado and it was so great to see Steph! Oh how I have missed my little sister!!! We stopped in at her house to see all the welcome signs---after almost dying from the altitude and three flights of stairs with suitcases---then we were off!

Red Rocks Ampitheatre-awesome, wish I could've seen a show

BeuJo's Pizza-dip the crust in honey-bomb

Creekside Cellars-$5 for 5 tastings

Morrison-antiquey/crafty shops...cool

Coors Tour in Golden-So awesome, informative, 3 8 oz. beers, awesome people watching for free

DART-Denver lightrail=super interesting....

Celtic Tavern-Jager!

Scalper-good deal

GAME-SOOOOOOO FUN! SOOOO CLOSE! WE WON!

After Game-FIREWORKS=best and longest I've ever seen!

Jackson's-$5 all you can drink 'til midnight, rooftop dance floor across from ballpark-soooo fun, and by the way Denver people LOVE the Cupid Shuffle. no. joke.

***Whatta day!***

Day 312

Thursday, September 15th

YES! I baked 4 dozen muffins...3 for a parent appreciation breakfast, and 1 for our staff breakfast (which I couldn't attend). The three flavor choices were blueberry, lemon poppyseed, and cinammon streusel. I worked super hard, and enjoyed every minute of it!