I am behind on the travel blog but will try and catch up as i have time off in MI for christmas. So jorge and i get up early and have to drive from salt lake city to denver, another long drive. We get there and are staying with my uncle Kevin and his family. I have two younger cousins there that i don't get to see very much so it will be good. The basement i like a studio apt. which is great. So the first night we just chill in the basement. The next day we play my uncle and cousin, nick in some two on two basketball and we lost. The altitude is crazy, i could never catch my breath. That night everyone i know in CO are planning on meeting up downtown denver. It's weird but i actually knew a lot of people around there. First we go to katie rooney's, pick her up and go to the denver brio. As we are on the way to brio sarah t. calls me and says she is sitting at the bar at brio with lee (all people i have worked with at the naples brio.) Sarah is actually just visiting for a wedding. So we meet up get some drinks and i get a chix d. Then we go to the hotel where sarah is staying and drink at the bar there until robyn and karalinda drive down from boulder. When they finally get there we all go out to 16th street and it was going off. Tons of bars and clubs everywhere. We hit up almost all of them, don't really remember all of them but it was lots of fun. Somehow we decide to go up to boulder- i did not drive. Next day we blaze and finally get lee to drive us back to my truck which is still downtown denver. When we get there all the streets are closed off and people everywhere. The taste of Colorado is going on so we jump out of lee's truck so hungover and make our way through the masses of people. Jorge tries to buy a bottle of water at a booth but you have to have tickets- so annoying. Finally we get back to the hotel parking garage where my truck was parked and get the hell out of there. I think we crashed in the basement after that for a while.
Probably took it easy that day but the next day uncle kevin and lilly took us up mount evens, the highest paved road in the US- 14,200 feet and i ended up driving. As i was going up this road the sights were amazing but jorge kept wanting me to whatch the road. So we get to the top and get out of the car to take some pics when i realize it was freezing. When we were on the ground it was 90 degrees now on the top of this mountain it was 37 and so windy. We saw some mountain goats up there jorge got real close to one of them for a pic. As the sun began to set we started to head down the mountain, what a beutiful way to see a sunset.
A lot of days there were spent relaxing, sleeping in, working out, and playing soccer in the back yard with the cousins. They are so competitive- lilly especially doesn't like to lose. One of the nights uncle kevin and Nick took us to a colorado rockies game. They played the cincinati reds, the game had playoff implications even though neither team made the playoffs but Coors field was packed. We saw two nice home runs by toulowiski (sp.) and we talked some shit to the reds 3rd baseman. We had great seats right by the field. It was a good time and that pretty much ended our week in aurora with my uncle, great to see them and thanks for the hospitality. Next stop boulder!
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