5/31 Gainesville, FL
6/1 Memphis, TN
6/2 Dodge City, KS
6/3 Denver, CO
...and with plenty of adventure in between! We met up with Jeremy's friends in Little Rock (for breakfast) and Colorado Springs (minor league baseball game and ice cream!) and were lost for a brief amount three times if I recall correctly. However, Jeremy has a GPS/map function on his phone so it wasn't for long. But out of all the places to which we traveled, Dodge City was actually sharing a co-starring role with Denver as one of the real destinations of the trip and it was well worth it. This is a link to the facebook album so that you can see all the pictures there and most are from Dodge City.
While that's a good album, you're still missing out on all the goofy stories that are just as much fun as BBQ in Memphis or swanky rest stops in Mississippi...like the reasons as to why there's popcorn chicken still on the driver's seat (a long Sonic pit-stop) or how I am a horrible navigator through Tulsa (they don't use exit numbers to my liking, at all). I also learned how to eat sunflower seeds. I know, it's sad that I'm 22 and this is a skill I'd not yet acquired, but we had a lot of time on our hands in Oklahoma and it took 30 seconds to learn and two minutes to practice, so it killed some time.
Due to a late arrival in Denver on Tuesday night, Wednesday was move-in day. The actual moving in took place after much misadventure, especially involving keys and the forgetting of them. However, once those were obtained, I was set within a matter of an hour (and once again I'm going to refer to Jeremy as being a huge help). :) Then came the unpacking, mattress arrival, and the grocery shopping. I'll skip this part because, frankly, it's boring.
While I'm aware that today is Thursday, for the last four hours I've been accidentally calling it Friday - I've done so much: Changed my driver's license, took Ody to have a VIN inspection and emissions test, acquired his (two!) plates, and drove to Toyota/Scion looking for a way to hold up the front plate without drilling into the bumper. But we drilled into the bumper in the end anyway, and it looks fine. Not that big of a deal.
I switched over my AAA membership - as some people know I'm a gung-ho AAA fan. I also figured out how to bank remotely, which includes banking by mail, as there is not one single Bank of America in Colorado. And I really like Bank of America.
I also bought and assembled a very heavy desk and a nice gentleman from my apartment helped me carry that up two flights of stairs. That was how I met one of my building-mates. My favorite story so far is my kitchen table story. I went on craigslist, of which I am now a devotee, and I found a gorgeous five-piece set in Wash Park. I emailed the owner and she emailed me back with her number. When I called her it turns out she lives in my building and teaches in the DTC - that's the Denver Tech Center if you're wondering. I had that table and a new friend in less than an hour! Small world. And she's a recreational runner who utilizes Wash Park, for which my neighborhood is named, as her usual path.
Whew.
So that takes me to tomorrow and since I was so productive with today I'll probably just hang up a few pictures and sort through my desk items and my clothes because they are still bagged and packed. Right now it's all pretty administrative stuff, and just about all the things one would expect to hear from someone who just moved across the country with only the back of a small Scion loaded to capacity. Aren't you all now wishing you hadn't asked for a way to keep in touch with me? :P
As for the not boring news, there's more of that to come now that I'm getting all these other frivolities out of the way. :P Soon enough, maybe even this weekend, I am off to do some outdoorsy things because the weather here is gorgeous! A run or walk around Wash Park at the very least since now I have a running partner in the building. This reminds me that I have a list of things I really wish I had, one is a vacuum and the other is a bike. And I can totally handle a dirty floor for now if it means I have a bike. ;) There's also a trip to FIBArk planned for next weekend and if it's at all possible I want to go to that, too, but we'll see. Here's the site. Now tell me that doesn't look like a blast. I dare you. :D
-Tami
Thursday, June 5, 2008
I love it here!
Alright, before I get to what I've been doing since I arrived in Denver (I promise you don't care to know, but you asked), I'll begin with the road trip Jeremy and I took. It went like this:
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Dang, girl! I am eating up all those yummy details (which you claim may bore, but I absolutely think are yummy, as they put ME right there with YOU!!)
Keep writing, as I finally get to reading thanks to French hotel internet XOXOX britt
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