Slothing

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The next few days after my trip with Becca were spent slothing around her apartment & doing emails at the Boulder Public Library. On the 26th, we volunteered again for 5430 Sports, this time for a 3km run through the centre of town. We now had moved up to microchip detachers after the runners crossed the finish line (woo hoo- promotion!). We met a lovely couple who were retirees who live in Staten Island, NY most of the year, but head out to Boulder for their summers. They LOVE sports, and until recently have been avid competitors, but now spend all of their time volunteering for sporting events & enjoying Boulder! They take a class at the University to get student accomodation, and have a ball living there. Well, I was asking them if anyone ever gets sick after the races & they said they haven't seen it before. Well, sure enough, as the 1st group of contestants cross the line (the junior men's group), the winner barrels in, stares blankly into the distance & loses his cookies all over the finishing zone. For some strange luck, my earlier question had made them alert to the potential puking, and they spritely jumped out of the way, with a look of surprise & relief that they were not in the firing line! After that there were no more problems, thankfully!

On Friday, I decided to thank Becca for her hospitality by cleaning the car, a momentous job because of all of the dust from our offroading through the parks. After more than 3 hours, I decided it was enough work & slothed for the rest of the afternoon watching Animal Planet (my new favourite TV channel, I am slightly obsessed with the ASPCA rescue show).

I finally dragged my lazy butt off the sofa to get Becca & head out for the evening. We decided to go barhopping again, so started at the Mountain Sun, then headed into town to meet with her other friends (Keith, Jason, Alexi & friends). I defintely got the full tour of the bars of Boulder, and have to say I was quite impressed. It was a lot of fun, and when we finally got kicked out at closing time, we decided to pick up Jason's dog Cayenne & carry on the party back at Becca's place. Well, she got out all of her games & got us some beers, and after she checked on something in the kitchen, she returned to the living room to find us all passed out on the sofa. So much for hard core partiers!

(Please check back later for a few photos)

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Comments

[mom]

Glad your blog is up and working, but what a pain to have to recreate all the info again and download the photo's. Can't wait to get the rest of your trip.