3:51pm walked all around downtown denver, literally ALL over. it took us nearly an hour to find the denver museum of art. worth the walk though, completely. right now is the psychedelic music/art exhibit which was awesome. it was all about the san fran haight/ashbury times which we had gone and seen while in san fran- so it was cool. i wish more than anything i grew up back then and got to actually experience those times and been able to go to the concerts- that would have been sick. we snapped a bunch of photos which wasn't allowed but we didn't care, we had to. denver is a cool place and am enjoying it very much :)
june 5, 2009
7:27am a really big part of me is very happy and slightly relieved we are leaving denver today. my body does NOT react well with the change in altitude. ladies night at cowboy lounge (free drinks all night long for ladies) yes. free. FREE. not even a penny. just order a drink and its free. i thought there would be a catch and there wasn't. well i guess there was. being shit tanked 2 drinks in. i didn't even believe it until i saw it. well i really only saw about one free drink until it was time for me & erin to go home. we clearly can't hang in denver. so pathetic. i must have got some sort of food before entering the cab because there is sour cream all over my clothes from last night. typical. i swear, anytime i try to eat drunk food it winds up all over me; note to anyone who eats anything involving mustard: WATCH OUT! that does not come out of clothes easily, or at all. i learned the hard way, a few times... anyway, we arrive back @ cody's way before he is even buzzed still at the bar and erin is jealous that i got to eat food and she decides she wants some. but could not figure out how to order pizza online for the life of her. or over the phone. this was most likely due to the fact somewhere along the process of dialing and ordering she switched the language to spanish; idiot. watching her try to order from a spanish menu was probably the funniest thing i have seen in a while. i think she may have even cried. the frustration finally led her to bed. i'm going to say this for the both of us; thank you for speaking spanish. if we had eaten 4 large pizzas 2 orders of bread sticks and 92 hot wings i would not be a happy camper right now. erin is still sleeping and cody is nowhere to be found. leaving for wyoming soon. im excited to be back on the road again. this trip is only 2 1/2 hours long though. piece of cake!
11:23am just leaving codys. off to wyoming. somehow managed to convince cody to let me take his black DC beanie on the road. the reason his answer was yes may be due to the fact hes high as a kite right now. the girl he's seeing works at a medicinal clinic and gave him a pot infused smoothie. i believe this smoothie was at least 3 servings but he decided to chug it within 4 minutes before we left, could barely hug us goodbye and when stepped outside to let us out thought the world looked funny and everything was moving. probably not best idea buddy ;) lesson learned. only drink 1 serving of pot, not 3. all in all, denver treated us well; free drinks, good times and good friends. and found the love of my life; the perfect pair of aviators. i have been looking all over for them and finally met them, i can add them to my collection of 30 pairs i already own. crazy? slightly. onto wyoming here we come yeee haw.
11:39am shell- gas stop. 2 rockstars. ready for the road. 2 gnarly grown weird men just called me & erin "baby" and asked for our numbers. we have got to get out of here.
11:57am i can barely even write right now because i almost just died of a heart attack. thought i jumped into a carpool lane. well this carpool lane turned into a tunnel which had a sign reading "do not enter" i immediately thought we are going to run into oncoming traffic and i panicked. luckily i slowed down and realized we got off an exit, not a carpool lane. we have no idea where we are. a bus station perhaps? i don't know. all i know is we are sitting in the middle of some weird parking lot with the flashers on to write this down. holy cow.
1:15pm @ wyo state line. we look ridiculous taking pictures considering the car we are driving has wyoming plates. we had to get it though. on our way to hike. also played the name the state game. i got all but 3. virginia, west virginia and mississippi. i suck. damnit.
2:53pm just got done hiking at happy jacks in wyoming. about a 45 minute hike. pretty exhausting. we're pretty out of shape. out of breath a minute into it. blame it on the a a a a a a altitude. we're blaming everything on the altitude. getting drunk quickly, out of breath hiking quickly, seriously everything. on our way to erins then meeting everyone at the bar for drinks & dinner. yay.june 7, 2009
10:52pm i actually ate so much today that it made me sick. i don't get sick. ever. never from drinking. never from eating. never from being on boats. never. but i finally did it. i finally reached the limit of food i can put in my body. i am blaming this one on the altitude. of course.
11:03pm i still can't really move so i guess i'll update the past few days here in laramie, wyoming. home of cowboy joe. first day here was an experience; had dinner and went on to play some pool and drinking 99 bottles of beer on the wall (6 pitchers of beer---same thing) i sucked at pool. blame it on the a a a a a altitude. clearly. moved onto the next bar, 3rd street. had a drink and continued on...to 'the buck' downstairs was pretty legit but upstairs was a whole new story, a 'club' if you will--people grinding on each other like i've never seen. come on dude, its wyoming, seriously? a little unexpected but hilarious to watch (from the corner where no grinding took place- no worries) met some of erins high school buddies, one which had a friend. a cute friend. come to find out this cute friend is from london and has an accent. and i am not one to ever swoon over guys with accents. it just doesn't get to me, we always pass them along to our friend ali, who is notorious for falling in love with foreigners (fact.) but this one got me...swooned? i immediately blame it on the altitude. clearly everything out of the norm is blamed on the altitude. anyway. night goes on...one too many shots and we need to go home. earlier in the day we had addressed to erin's mom no matter what we did or what we said or how much we begged she had to FORBID us from eating after the bars. after we get home we "go to bed" a trick me and erin came up with one of the first days we had met. its where we pretend to go to bed and wait for everyone else in the house to fall asleep and then sneak off to wherever (kitchen, fast food, etc) to eat our late night drunk food. we sometimes actually fall asleep and miss out on the amazing food but wake up satisfied that our drunk idea backfired. SO. we waited. and waited. and what seemed like 2 hours finally came time to sneak (so we thought) into the kitchen. i swear we opened the kitchen door and the refrigerator had a halo on top and was glowing. with cereal and god knows what else in erins hand and a huge knife (probably really unsafe as it is) in my hand about to cut 9/10ths of the chocolate cake to bring downstairs with us, erins mom walks in. without a word coming from her mouth, she takes all of the food (and weapons: my knife) away from us, shoves us down the stairs with peanuts and locks the door. upset at the time we loved her the next morning. night number 2 follows. we are exhausted and leave telling erins parents we'll be back in an hour. apparently the altitude can change time durations now too because we left at 9pm and didn't come back until 430am. that is 6 1/2 hours longer than 'one hour' started at a party where i guzzled 8 glasses of 'hopskip' an awesome drink consisting of beer lemonade & vodka. london and friend walked in surprise! later we all leave and head to the bars. 3rd street bar was bar #1. i, being the complete jackass that i always am decide it would be a great idea to sit on the large stool and act like the bouncer (there actually was no bouncer. not sure why. wyoming is pretty crazy. apparently they don't need bouncers at some bars..or so they thought) i took matters into my own hands and asked everyone that walked in for their id's. 'whats your age' 'whats your middle name' 'well how do you spellllll your middle name' being a complete asshole. 100%. obviously. i would have punched me if i was being bounced by me, especially because 1/2 the time i couldn't even keep a straight face. the next time i had gone up to the bar i ordered 2 drinks & 3 beers and the girl bartender asked me if i was the one checking ids at the door. i said 'ah...yes.....im so sorry' she replied and said 'THANK YOU its getting busy in here, keep doing it!' and gave me all the drinks for free. NO WAY! SWEET! i got to have fun playing bouncer AND drink for free? i love wyoming. night continues on and we're at the buck...again. i stole someones aviators (come to find out was a fellow high school student friend of erins-oops) bars close but we are NOT done partying. not yet. off to erins friends house with 2 cases (because one wasn't enough) of beer. ps london was there and still had his accent. ah. tired to play quarters but at this point me trying to toss a quarter into a cup would be like trying to get an armless man to climb monkey bars- actually impossible. i made up my own version- throw quarter, miss cup completely and knock over MY cup of beer onto the couch. way more exciting. nope. night over. time to go home. me erin and megan arrive back home and are about to raid the kitchen. its 4:30am at this point and everyone is asleep. we're golden. WRONG. kitchen door is shut with a NOTE reading "no snacking :)" yes it really had a smiley face. erins mom had left this note for us. seriously? i nearly peter pantsed myself right then and there. (i didn't.) and i also didn't care about the 'note' i opened the door and thought i was james bond for a second and grabbed the chocolate cake. we ate that in about 2 minutes and finally went to bed. use a lock next time, not a piece of paper. leads onto day #3 in wyo (today), erins parents had a bbq which was so fun. followed by a relaxing evening of a movie, making pizza & relaxing which led to my last post of me getting sick. gross. i think now its about time for bed. yawn. goodnight.
june 8, 2009
5:10pm just got home from bowling. i scored a 66 the first time, beating erin. next time 77, losing and last game; i wished & prayed to the holy bowling gods that i could make it to a hundred. i ended with a whopping 101. nice. i was stoked. at one point trying to bowl i forgot we were bowling and thought we were playing softball, throwing the bowling ball so hard into the gutter it bounced back into the lane. laying low tonight and off to cody, wyoming tomorrow and yellowstone national park which is am sooo excited for.
june 9, 2o09
8:57am just dropped erins car off at her dads shop and on our way up to yellowstone with her mom! i'm not driving, but its okay. we're still in wyoming and technically going back WEST so as long as we are not heading east i'm okay. i just have to drive the actual entire road trip. still wont let erin drive haha.
5:03pm erin is living in a fantasy land. when isn't she though? i'm over here wondering if i'll ever talk to someone again and at the same moment i'm pondering, she looks at me wonders if we'll ever talk to two almost strangers we met again...oh erin. ps went to hot springs, acted like 5 year old children and went down a water slide into the hotsprings. this enclosed water slide was a near death experience. we were only supposed to go one at a time but being 5 year olds we are, we both went down together, going approximately 982 mph almost flipping and breaking our necks. we got yelled at by the 15 year old 'lifeguard' when we both exited the slide. typical. on our way to the house near yellowstone. pps also found out today that the clamata beer i had the other day has clam juice in it. that is disgusting.
5:27pm officially ashamed of myself. "wow look at THAT horse" erin looks "its a cow" ...oops.
june 10, 2009
1:18pm woke up today and went for a run around wyoming. got to 'suicide hill' i know exactly why they named it this. steep hill + high altitude= death. on our way into town to walk around a bit. going to my first rodeo tonight. it should be interesting. i'm excited though.
sometime before the rodeo; we spent all day walking around town; going in and out of shops. bought some more hot sauce which turned out to be the hottest sauce i have ever tried in my life. i'm pretty good with spicy foods/sauces but this one burned my mouth AND lips for a good 15 minutes. i had to use chalula sauce to calm it down a bit. inside one of the gift stores me and erin warped back to being 5 years old again. this happens a lot. we can't act our age anywhere we go. ever. we found some fun binoculars and guns and pretended to go hunting IN the store with fake animals. it was amusing for us, most likely embarrassing for her mom and just plain insane for the customers/workers who were watching us. we have no shame. ah whatever. headed to dinner with erins aunt/cousin and then going to the rodeo...ooooh boy!
sometime after rodeo; rodeo was fun. watching the cowboys ride those animals was pretty funny. actually some of the guys were really cute. but mid watching these dudes ride the bulls/horses/etc... i overhear erin ask her aunt a question, dead serious, "who is THAT clown" ..yes. she was talking about a real rodeo clown, face paint and all. she declared she had fallen in love and continued to watch him/ take pictures of him the rest of the night. oh my.june 11, 2009
11:45am made it to yellowstone national park a little while ago and are at 'old faithful' right now. we're on top of a volcano which obviously makes me excited because i am a nerd and like volcanoes. weird, i know. moving on. waiting for this thing to go off...
11:47am it went off! nuts! so cool! so glad we have it on video!!!
2:20pm just had some lunch and at the car no we're on our way to see some waterfalls but now we're stuck at a 30 minute waiting zone to move on the road.
7:10pm i honestly think the mountain is growing. i think we are on a trick mountain that is never going to end. just as we think we're heading down it starts spiraling up again. are you fucking kidding me? this can't be real. dear God, please let us down this mountain. i promise ill go to church on sunday if you answer my prayer. PLEASE NOW.
7:18pm so this is what torture feels like.
11:20pm after the long train wreck of a day up and down the never ending mountain me & erin finally decide we need out and go get margaritas & mexican. ah. finally we can discuss the ridiculous and absurd events that occurred today. we felt a lot better. we leave cody, wyoming tomorrow morning at 8am and head back to laramie for one more night. then back on the road it is for the two of us and onto south dakota! time for bed. good. night. :)
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