In their most recent attempt to flee the ravages of Mother Nature, IE hurricane Wilma, Nutz and Crackerz headed west young man for the slopes in the American West. Well ok, not really to avoid a hurricane and not really to go skiing. However skiing would have been fun, unfortunately none of the slopes are to open in the Denver area for a couple of more weeks.
The purpose of our voyage across our great continent was to allow the Cracker to impress her bosses at a technology conference. As Nutz was just a tag along, I think it was more of a beer and wine tasting trip then anything else. Yes we did imbibe a little in the Denver area but why not. We had a good time. However what should prevent us from having a good time?
Ok, a little rundown of our time line. We left the Tidewater on Saturday morning and by the magic of not so modern science we were in Denver by dinner time. Amazing what technology can do for you. We got the rental car, loaded up our gear and headed downtown to enjoy all the fun that Denver had to offer. We had a good time on Saturday night and did not get too stupid. Crackerz ahs some issues with time zones so that was a bit of a self inflicted handy cap on our drinking time.
Sunday we were off and running looking for a good, western Sunday brunch. The $39 champagne brunch at the brown shoe hotel down the street was bit out of our budgetary allotment so we settled on the drag queen hangout of Bump and Grind. A decent joint if you are into trannies. We enjoyed the walk for our hotel and we also enjoyed the food. Although I did not tell Crackerz that I found a “cobra” in my eggs.. She might not have finished her meal.
Sunday ended where it started, in bed. Crackerz was once again comatose before I was. Go figure. She had a busy day of hob-knobbing with people from around the continent who were here for the conference. I of course took the time to read, watch some football, take a nap and most importantly check out the hotels hot tub. A great day, go Lions!
Monday, of course Crackerz had to go off to her coffee tasting activities. After dropping Crackerz off at the convention center, I was free of her oppressive dictatorship and made a run for the hills, specifically the hills where my roots and family could be found, Nederland. Nederland Colorado, that is. The inhabitants here are not the tall, blond hair,
Blue eyed, big boobied brethren of the mini country of Holland but the wasted refuse of the folks who could not live in Boulder Colorado because of the tremendous amount of liberalism and illicit pharmaceuticals available in that city. Actually my day was pretty good, a nice drive through Boulder and a ride through the mountains. I even stopped at the Boulder creek waterfall for a quick picture on my way up hill.
As how I was out the door of the hotel early, and the only thing keeping my engine going was the five cups of coffee consumed while driving around, I was a bit hungry. Bt the time I got to the apex of Colorado Route 119 I was a bit hungry and the town of Nederland and the day deserved a bit of a visit. So with a cup of coffee and a coffee cake I sat on the back patio of the little “railcar” café and enjoyed the western sun while overlooking the mountains and a man made lake.
Needing to get home, I continued on my great circle tour of route 119 and eventually wound up in the town of Golden. This is of course after coming down the mountains through the town of Black Hawk where it should be noted numerous gaming facilities are available.
As how I was now in the home of the Silver Bullet, I decided I needed to see where the bullet was made. So it was off to the Coors brewery and sampling facility. My hat is off to the Coors Family. Budweiser sucks, especially those brewers who do not provide free samples at the end of their tours. The Coors tour although a little disappointing from my point of view as a person who digs industry was great. At the end of the tour we, the folks on the tour got three free samples of their beer. Yum, note to the wise, eat some grub before you go on tour. I needed to stroll thought Golden and get a slice of Pizza to soak up y barley and Hops before getting back into the auto for the short drive along US 6 to Denver.
Dinner on Monday night was started by hors-d-overs and free drinks in the basement of our hotel where Crackerz introduced me to many of here new found friends. Lots of new found male friends by the way. After having our fill it was of to a joint called the “Brokers”, which was a restaurant in the bottom of an old bank. A nice little place however I would not recommend the Fillet Mignon, A little dry and a little over priced, however the rest of the meal was great for an all inclusive joint were the free appetizer is a gigantic bowl of boiled shrimp.
I of course made the evening interesting with unyielding commentary of the vulgar kind.
Tuesday was a brand new day I wanted it to make some cents. So Crackerz walked me down the street to the little café where I was able to get some morning grub before going to the Mint. Here is a little known fact of trivia Americana, did you know that the US Mints are one of the few profit centers in the US Government? How is this you might ask? Well we all know how much a nickel cost? 5 cents. Well it only costs the mint 4.5 cents to make a nickel. As how they, the mint sells them for 5 cents, they make .5 cents profit. The mint makes lots of nickels however they make even more cents. Pennies that is for you who choose to live by some terms left over from the revolution. The tour of the mint was pretty neat and I did get a few Denver coins for my US state quarter collection. However these items I picked up at other places.
Not having my fill of fun and adventure I decided to take a short drive to the Cherry Creek Mall for a little shopping. I was actually on a mission to find some new shower shoes for the boat, my Addidas sandals are coming apart and I am tired of gluing them back together…Anyhow crocs are like clogs however they are quite soft and comfortable, additionally they are made out of rubber so they can be warn in the shower. I think I might need to by stock in the company when they have their IPO like I should have purchased google at their IPO which is now trading at $300+ a share.
After having bought what I was looking for, and of course touring the mall it was back to the hotel to read a little then wait for my darling wife to arrive so we could go exploring. She did and we did. I took her up to Black Hawk and the gaming facilities where she promptly one $40 then promptly lost her winnings and $15 dollars more. Always good to give to the Indians. We drove back down from the mountains taking a few pictures along the way. A pretty ride and we both commented on how if we had to we could live in the Denver area for a while.
Dinner was at the old spaghetti factory and of course early to bed. I did finish my Oliver North book Assassins. A good read that could be very true and very scary. Just makes me want to press home the point even more that the way of doing things in the past is a whole lot different then the way things need to be done in the future. Thinking out side the box that is.
So here it is Wednesday, we are back on the plane heading east. Hopefully we will be back in town for me to get some errands done around the house like cut the grass or something like that. Denver was fun and hopefully we will be back some time soon to have some winter fun.
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