Colorado

On the gym front, things were good. We played some good VB, had some good lifting sessions, and even figured out how to get rid of some issues I was having (thanks, PT). Rog is coaching the 6y old girls through their softball season as the pitcher and it's getting better. 

Made it to Colorado

There were a couple more monumental things that happened this week. Like I bought ice cream and then our freezer stopped working and I spilled the liquidy mess all over the floor when I was trying to get it out. (I think it's fixed now, but so much for my rule of portioning it lol). We ended up drinking milkshakes with whatever was left. AND my basil plant is still alive, we have a new raspberry sprout coming up, but they are also in the same pot and I think the basil will lose eventually. 

Visiting the alpacas. Note the hat. 

I "hosted" a bach party for my friend Cenita who's getting hitched at the end of the month. It was a fun little gig with dinner and drinks at our favorite Mexican place. Then we went back to hers for games & gifts. 

Airport crew for the dropoff. 

Saturday, I woke up early for my flight to CO, arriving at 4:30 for a 6am flight, losing a pocket knife, and barely making it to the gate on time due to some CRAZY lines (retrospectively, probably for mother's day weekend). But after sitting on the tarmac for a while with the plane equivalent of a "check engine" light on the dash, we ended up getting off. They didn't cancel it and gave priority to people with connecting flights for changes. 

The weekend winner. 

I ate breakfast and sit and read and when the new 8:45 departure time changed to 1:30, I was able to change my flight to an 11:50 departure AND get on standby for a 9:45 flight - which I was the last one to be able to board. I got to Denver by noonish, which was better than what it could've been. 

Solitaire is too "borin'"

I ended up chilling at the house for a while and chatting before Kelly and I left for some French cuisine (which the Chin backed out of, due to a Celtics game). We had some beets, bread with baked Brie, chicken, and creme brulée. It was all good, although we could've used more bread and I'm not sure how actually authentic it was. 

Finding our restaurant. 

The highlight of the weekend, was learning about the Chin's no sugar diet. If you're wondering, this somehow includes cookies, pie (lemon, PB, and oreo ice cream), any juice you want, and cereal for breakfast as long as you don't ADD sugar. Hilarious. 

Classic. Still not sitting with the fam after all these years. 

He did do us a solid by cooking a mother's day feast - with prime rib, salad, broccoli, mashed potatoes, and those 3 types of pies that had been previously "tested" and had their edges "cleaned up". I became the Uno King and MGH learned how to play a modified version of Solitaire. 

Meanwhile, Rog got his bird. 

Most of the weekend was nice just being not an adult for a minute. And it was also nice that my flight was free (with reward points) and Scrumb Bum Lavinia didn't eat my blanket. And I called dibs on her carpet with Mama Sama on board for it. 

Mama B's back in biz

A largely uneventful week filled with work and sports and more work. I had a good pickup volleyball session on Monday while Rog played basketball. I went to the gym while Rog had 2 softball games for the 6y olds he coaches (where they usually play 2 innings where everyone hits and nobody keeps track of points). 

Hiking.

In some of my spare time, I've been working on my Etsy study guides again, getting ready to add some new ones in. I've also been reading - 2/3 of the way through the Defy trilogy by Larson (which is ok) and finished Fairy Tale by Stephen King. I'm not really a horror fan, so I was leery of this, but it had a happy ending and was really just more realistic than magic and fairies and nobody getting bloody. Would recommend. 

Cheese balls and Garlic Bread.

We went to Oregano's, where Rog caught up with his friend Hunter who works nights as a waiter there. The best new thing we tried was fried cheese curds, aka cheese balls, aka gourmet mozz sticks. Delicious. 

The weekend was one for sleeping in and reading some more. We also went on a little hiking adventure in the aspens and stopped by our favorite burger joint in town - Mama Burgers. It just reopened after the owners took a year hiatus to do some renovations and the shakes are just as good, although a little more expensive. 

Classic.

We had dinner at Carol's house with the missionaries (since our missionaries won't meet with us and her husband was out of town scouting for buffalo). We had some delicious enchiladas and watermelon and stayed to visit for a little bit after. 

The other adventure of the week is house hunting. Loosely. We found a 5-acre plot in an ideal location for $100K which is UNHEARD of in this town (vs. $200K for 8000sq ft, which is low end of normal). At first we thought this was a great deal for some dirt to build on, but turns out it's in the flood plane and would be VERY costly. We also went to look at a house with a realtor friend of ours, listed as a 2bed/2bath for $360K that will probably actually be better off getting destroyed with all the work it needs. (Seriously). We aren't in a hurry and I'm still half convinced that we're not going to find anything workable price-wise in this town, but we're in the market loosely.