First of all, there is no way the corn game is 'un-fun' and I resent the aforementioned accusation (Emily). However, if you are interested in doing something 'un-fun', might I suggest a lengthy drive through Kansas and/or eastern Colorado.
Em and I hit the road around 6 Kansas time but stopped at IHOP for a some chocolate chip pancakes. The people of Kansas have a very interesting sense of humor. More specifically, the IHOP waitstaff in Kansas are strange. I am just going to leave it at that.
It didn't take long for the Kansas highway to lose any and all appeal to us, and by the time we departed IHOP, we realized we hadn't yet turned on the radio all morning. Emily dared me to participate in the newly created 'Radio Game'. The radio game is the cousin of the Heat Game. It just means we are depriving ourselves of something pleasant until it becomes so painful we have to give in. The deal was this: No music until we got out of Kansas. If we survived this together, we knew our already firmly established friendship would be cemented. Naturally, I acknowledged her dare and double-dog-dared her back.
Game on.
So 'Radio Game' paved the way for us to create the farming masterpiece that we'd place on 70-W in Kansas. Yes, this quadri-plot piece of land would come fully equipped with a 1/4th for the farm house (complete with wrap-around porch for the rocking chairs..obviously), a 1/4th for the wheat fields, a 1/4th for the corn fields (obviously we'd have corn), and the final 1/4th for the animals--horses, moo cows, and cattle. Hours go by (5 of them to be exact), and we have (successfully?) NOT turned on the radio yet, and we're nearing the Colorado border. Appropriately enough, we burned a 'coming and going' themed CD for our entrance into the eastern side of Colorado. To our dismay, eastern Colorado looks alot like everything we had just driven on in Kansas. Fail. At least we had music back in the scene.
A few quick hours (seriously quick because we had a group of people we were very anxious to see) and we arrived in Denver. Thanks to my cousin Lindsay, we knew we could make a 2:15 showing of Toy Story 3 at the theatre off the 16th Street Mall in Downtown Denver. As excited as we were to find our peoples, we had to see Toy Story first. This movie was excellent; it really was one of the better movies we've seen and it completed one of the finest trilogies in cinematic history. Oh Toy Story 3, what can we say..we laughed (a lot), we cried (seriously bawled), and had to leave the theatre before the lights came back on (due to the bawling) at the movies end.
Time to regroup and find Meagan some heels for our night out in Vegas! Wandering the 16th Street Mall to find shoes led us to a little bakery that I remembered from my trip to Denver in March. Red velvet and Funfetti cupcakes in hand, we wait on Sarah and Maggie (Meagan's Italy roommates!) to pick us up for the Rockies game! The four of us set off to the Sports Column near Coors Field to meet up with one of my closest Georgia girls, Su and her friends! Some of the better memories always seem to involve multiple groups of friends coming together for some reason or another. After some drinks and food, we headed over to Coors Field for the Rockies game.
Our seats were up on the first base side, and we couldn't have asked for a more picturesque setting. Catching up with the Italy girls was wonderful, and it didn't hurt to watch the sun go down behind The Rockies. Well done Denver, well done.
After falling asleep at Sarah's kitchen counter, I headed to bed and I think the girls were soon to follow. Denver was wonderful and the reunions were extra nice!
The drive to Vegas will be up soon, and the report on Vegas sometime after that (we'll tagteam that post, too!)
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