Revived.

Well.

First I MUST express the ridiculousness of CO weather. Last Saturday it was 25 and snowing. Today? 80 and sunny. I'm so confused.

Anyway.

Hannah Ito came and visited me last weekend. It was much needed. Since I've been here I have been making friends...but not much compares to the deep friends from college and home. It was very refreshing...oh yes.

What did we do?

We ate at Snooze. Snooze is a magical breakfast experience. Pancakes the size of your face (or two of your faces...depending on face size). Gourmet at best.

We saw White on Rice. Hilarious indie movie. Check it out if you have time.

We went bowling (for free). Okay...so we actually 'crashed' a friend of a friend's wedding reception that happened to be at a bowling alley...a swanky bowling alley. You have to be 21 to stay past 9....anyway...

We went to church. We also went to Slam Poetry. So...Denver has a decent poetry scene. Our teens were involved with a therapeutic poetry group, Art from Ashes...which is quite lovely. It basically provides the teens with the opportunity to express themselves through the spoken word. As staff, we also had to write and share poetry. I'm not very good. :) But it's fun to write. I learned that you don't even have to rhyme :)...

Well anyway...Slam Poetry is when poets compete against each other and it gets narrowed down to a winner. Well there's a place here that has slams every Sunday night. pretty sweet. The content of the poetry is always different. It's deffinitely a sub culture around here...it makes me more aware of the heartbeat of the city. Which...I must say...if the poems I've heard are any indication...is in a lot of pain.

Well. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park on Monday (Joe gave me the day off! SWEET!)...there was totally snow. We ate some too. It was pure and delicious (hopefully). We met a duck. He was all by himself...but he seriously walked right up to us and chilled for a bit. We named him Soren. Soren the duck.

Then I drove Hannah to the airport and that was that.


Then I had to go back to work. It was a weird week. One of our volunteer coordinators was taken to the hospital...still not sure what happened. He told me he felt weird that he was seeing spots and felt really warm...so he cam and sat in our office with the lights off. Then he just got progressivly worse...so I went "to go find a grown up"...I didn't know what to do...so the 'grown-ups' called 911 and he went to the hospital. Still no news.

THEN!

Did y'all see that balloon boy?? Sam called me and told me to turn on the news...oh man. The balloon wasn't terribly far from where I am...crazy. Too bad I just read about how it was a hoax. LAME.

So our projector in the youth room is somehow hooked up to cable...so we turned the news on...well two of our kids (4 and 6) were hanging out with us while their mom was in a parenting workshop. So we told them to watch the news...

I asked Tricia (4) if she ever watches the news...her response: "not often...but KK does...I watch Hannah Montana though..." haha

Then Tricia and James had a whole conversation about whether or not the news was real...James' argument "yes uh Tricia! that is outside! That thing is over The Crossing! See! That is real!"..Tricia responded with "nuh huh..."

you tell 'im Trish!

Well..I'm going to go enjoy a Sunday afternoon nap!