Week 11

This 14 week journey is beginning to come to an end.  It seems like just yesterday we were leaving for Denver, and now we are starting to think about home.  This week brought excitement in a new form.  My parents.  They came out to visit this week and I got 5 days of them all to myself to show them around Denver and spew my knew knowledge all over them.

Last Friday after class, I went to go meet up with my parents at the B & B.  I took them down town to the 16^th street mall, to Larimer Street, to Tattered Covers, to the Capitol, and to the Molly Brown Museum all by about 4:30.  For dinner, we ended up at Pizza Fusion which not only has phenomenal food, but also is a good cause.  All the people who work there are in transitional housing and work there in order to get back on their feet. 

Saturday, I met up with them at their B & B for breakfast and then we headed out.  We first went out to Red Rocks Amphitheatre.  I don’t think they knew how amazing it was going to be, but I’m pretty sure they both had their breath taken away by how beautiful and amazing it was.  After that, we drove up look out mountain for a funny tour of the buffalo bill museum, and then went up to his grave which had amazing views.  We drove down the mountain, got lunch at a small diner in Golden, and then went to tour the Coors Factory.  The tour was audio guided and sort of boring, but it was still cool.  After the Coors Factory, we walked around town a bit, and then headed back to Denver.  To finish off the night, we went out to eat at CityGrille, home to the City’s best burger.  And boy oh boy was it good.

Sunday, my parents went with Sarah and I to Denver Community Church.  I did not think they would like it as it is sort of contemporary, but they said they liked it.  And the pastor got them laughing which is always good J After church, we went to buffalo doughboy bakery for a light lunch and then went out to a wine tasting at a local vineyard.  Afterwards, we headed out to Cherry Creek and walked around the mall a bit before deciding we were tired.  For dinner, we went to Casa Bonita.  People don’t go there for the food, but for the experience.  They had cliff divers, a mariachi band, gun fights, and juggling gorillas.  I wasn’t a fan of the food, but it was still sort of cool.

Monday morning, I had class again, so after class, I took my parents to the Delectable Egg for lunch.  Afterwards, we headed out to Boulder.  Boulder is a lot closer to the mountains and still really cool.  Plus, the tea factory is there.  We drank lots of tea, and had a fun tour in which dad recognized pretty much all of the equipment.  And I got to go back to the peppermint room which was AMAZING! We drank some tea for a while, and then headed down to the Pearl Street Mall where we walked around, watched some street performers, and got a nice Italian dinner. 

Tuesday we had a pretty laid back day.  We had breakfast at Jellys, and then went out to the Hammond Candy Factory.  We drove around CityParke, ate at D Bar Desserts, and then went out to Aurora to shop a little.  We also walked around South broadway a little before saying goodbye.  It wasn’t tearful though, as I know I will see them so very soon. I enjoyed the time we had together and hope they did too J.

Wednesday I was back at work and it was check request day.  Laura’s family was in town, so she only worked a half day.  We worked quickly all morning in order to get everything done and touch base about how we were splitting up responsibilities while Laura was gone.  We were working on getting check requests for the next to Early Bird Drawings done as well as the Grand Prize Drawing.  That meant  I had about 330 check requests to do.  Luckily, I could just photo copy and fill in numbers so it was fairly painless.  I also sent out another round of the survey today and spent a lot of time responding to comments on that.  Thursday was a fairly laid back day.  We still had people out sick and people at meetings all day.  I spent the morning responding to survey comments and doing some social media stuff.  We went out to lunch, and then after lunch I did some work with the survey, writing letters, and doing some more research on guerilla marketing.  Marietta Schemell came today to take pictures of me at the site so that offered a nice short afternoon break. 

This weekend is St. Patricks Day.  I have a lot of work to get done, but I think we should be able to have some fun too J