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Weekend Things

Lauren4 Comments

Rockies Home Opener Weekend Things.  Joey’s Birthday Weekend Things.  Red Headed Weekend Things.  Yes, all of those things.

Happy Sunday!  Yesterday I woke up at 9 AM after going to bed at 10 PM on Friday (party girl!) and felt exhausted.  This morning I woke up at 6:50 and felt ready to take on the world!  What is that even about??  I swear, the less sleep I get, the better I feel.  Is that a thing?

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Friday was the Home Opener for the Rockies, or as our friend Bobby poetically put it, “the day I’ve been ditching work/school for for the past 6 years.”  When I was still in school, the first thing I would do when I got the course syllabus was jump to Opening Day and breathe a huge sigh of relief when there were no tests or papers due.

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We hit up Biker Jim’s for a pre-game lunch.  The Biker Jim’s “classic” comes with a dog, a side of fries and a PBR.  One of the only places where drinking PBR actually feels right.

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This picture is amazing!

I usually go with the Vegan dog, but they have a shortened menu for Opening Day — it’s super busy! — so I ended up with the Elk Cheddar dog, topped the classic Biker Jim’s way with caramelized onions and cream cheese.  Everything about these hot dogs tastes like the best of the best, down to the super fluffy bun — even if it sticks to your teeth so badly!

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The streets around the stadium were packed with beer vendors and Rockies fans, so we picked a line and grabbed some beer with Bobby and his girlfriend Becca before heading inside.  Then Opening Day festivities commenced.

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It was cloudy and pleasant for a majority of the game, but the sun came out right at the end and it was plain hot.

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We pulled out a win — always a good start to the season when that happens!

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Later on, I found myself with a mad sushi craving and the nice weather had us both wanting to get out of our apartment for a while, so we headed down the street for dinner at East Moon Grill.

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We usually gear towards the more Americanized version of sushi.  You know, the cream cheese-filled, seafood-is-cooked kind of stuff, but two of the four rolls we ordered actually had raw fish and you know what?  We didn’t mind it.  Actually, the baked, fried and cream cheese-sauced roll was our least favorite.  Or Joey’s at least — I’m still a slave to the cream cheese 🙂

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There were some cool Friday night clouds on our post-dinner stroll.

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Saturday involved running, the first Starbucks Frappuccino I’ve had in years, dying my hair red and an amazing meal at Linger (which I will totally elaborate on later this week!), to celebrate Joey’s birthday, which was this past Wednesday.

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We also somehow managed to fit in a stop at this cool little ice cream shop.

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We stood in line for what felt like forever but it was worth it.  Ice cream always is, isn’t it?

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Today — you know, the day that started at 6:50 AM — has been a lovely day of lounging/TV watching, hot yoga-ing, Chipotle quesadilla eating (another thing I haven’t had in years and was every bit as deliciously cheesy as I’d remembered) and yes, more Rockies gameage.  And we won again!

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I hooked my wristlet to my seat and casually joked about forgetting it there and then I actually forgot it there.  Luckily, a really nice usher let us back through the gates and we were able to grab it and still make it back to the car in good time.  Oopsie!

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And with that, I think I’ll leave you to go enjoy what’s left of this Sunday before the work week starts up again.

P.S.  Longest post ever?  Sorry!

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Labor Day Weekend Things

Lauren1 Comment

Ooooh, where to begin.  This three-day Labor Day weekend was a whirlwind of baseball, beer and balloons.  Yeah, you know what?  Those three words pretty much sum up my weekend.

I normally have a lot to say, but I think I’ll shut up and just show you instead.  Don’t worry, I can’t actually completely shut up, so I’ll add some explanation every now and then.

How great is this picture of my mom?

Immediately after drinking this margarita she felt sick and wasn’t sure why.  I asked what she ate all day and she replied with a cupcake and coffee for breakfast, french fries for lunch and a hot dog for dinner.  Huh, I’m not sure why either.

Here I am in my kitchen on Saturday morning, just brewing some beer in a 22 quart stockpot.

I feel like we have some weird science experiment going on in our apartment.  And in a way, I guess it kind of is.  I’ll let you know how it tastes in a few weeks, but for now, we’re pretty damn excited that it’s working like it’s supposed to.  Still baffles me that you can drink something that you’ve let sit out for a month, though.

Joey’s face as he loses our giant game of Jenga is priceless.

We spent Saturday in Colorado Springs, which to Joey means a chance to watch the Rockies’ Triple A team play.  I was okay with it since my favorite Rockies player is playing for them right now while he rehabs an injury from earlier in the season.

We definitely made eye contact at one point.  And my life was made.

Beer sampling at Phantom Canyon Brewing Company, which happened to be right across the street from our hotel.  Perfect.  Plus more beer, some amazing corn chowder and a giant salad.  I  thought I might never eat again.

Just singing to his beer.  Totally normal.

The real reason we were in the Springs was to go to the Colorado Balloon Classic.  It’s basically a weekend-long hot air balloon festival.  There’s morning and evening events, including the Balloon Glo, where all the balloons inflate and light up with fire.  It was definitely cool to see.  Those balloons are so much bigger when you’re standing next to them on the ground than they look up in the sky!

Let’s not talk about the 30 minute walk from the festival back to our hotel in the dark and how Joey claimed he saw a bullet hole in the window of a building.  And let’s really not talk about how we watched the news when we got back and there had been a shooting the night before on that same street.  I hope my mom isn’t reading this.

Up early the next morning to watch the “Grand Ascension.”

This is my “can you stop taking pictures of me while I have a mouth full of this sketchy carnival burrito?!” face.  Which Joey clearly finds hilarious.  I’m going to pretend everyone was sitting in the wet grass while bouncing back and forth between eating a burrito and feeling like they were going to throw up.  This is my life.

Now we’re home, uh, watching baseball.  How much baseball is too much baseball?  Our beer is fermenting away, laundry is in progress and we’re heading over to my brother’s for a little family BBQ-ing.  There will probably be more beer.

Happy Labor Day!

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What did you do with your 3-day weekend?

If you could sum LDW up in three words what would they be?

Have you ever been to a hot air balloon festival or even gone up in one?