Monday, September 29, 2008

The shadow from the starlight / is softer than a lullabye

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1. The Denver airport looks like Baked Alaska. Check it out:
   
   
   
2. 16th street mall area is awesome for not having a car.
   
3. Evil super villains don't do dinner meetings. (But they will do lunch, if you ask nicely enough).
   
4. The baby doesn't particularly like flying. Which is funny to me, for some reason. But I probably won't fly much more, anyway.
   
5. No matter what they tell you, bring boots. Or hardy shoes. Or something.
   
6. Being paid to go someplace with awesome weather (at the moment), go on a field trip, visit friends, and eat cheesecake is AWESOME.

PS... ultrasound and belly pics are forthcoming - when I'm not too lazy to get them off of my camera. :-)

Labels: denver, friends, six_points, trips, work

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

For what it's worth / It was worth all the while

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So we drove to Denver this past weekend, which was awesome (which is to say, being in Denver and visiting people was awesome, having a captive audience in the car for 36+ hours was awesome, the driving itself was not so awesome). I got to see all kinds of interesting things for the first time on the trip though:

1. Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. Ha!
   
2. Giant windmill things (in Kansas)
   
3. Tumbleweed
   
4. Prairie dogs
   
5. Oil wells (the kind that look like those bird-looking perpetual motion things... not sure how to describe it)
   
6. The Rockies
   

I also learned some things on the trip:

1. Kansas is the birthplace of Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, and William Chrysler.
   
2. The first patented helicopter was in Kansas.
   
3. In spite of all this, Kansas is lame.
   
4. Apparently, real trees don't really grow where there's no water, so you get stuck with these little weedy trees... which are funny. But not really trees.
   
5. Those windmill things are bigger than I could have imagined.
   
6. Traveling to Denver while trying to get over a sinus infection will make your ears hurt. But they won't actually explode. Which is good.
   

We got to visit Krys, Manda, and their boys, play Shanghai (though not the last couple of rounds), eat pancakes and sushi (not at the same time), tour Boulder, appreciate the awesomeness of friends who have known you forever and don't manufacture their own drama, run around Pearl St. mall, and Manda introduced me to a store that sells happy-hippie eco-friendly natural soaps and shampoos and stuff. And they are opening one in Houston. Yay! I might have to buy stock in them or something, seriously.

All in all, the trip was a success. I would definitely do it again, with less car this time, and more airplane.

Labels: denver, friends, lush, lyrics, shanghai, six_points, trips

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