Day 31 (7/2): Boulder, CO; Day Off

Ahhhh a day off. Woke up around 8ish this morning to head to a sponsored breakfast over at the Walnut Café…big thanks to the Tanabes. Quite an earthy little place…turns out Boulder is quite the “granola” kind of town. Enjoyed a rockin spinach and cream cheese omelette with potatoes AND a sweet roll. Day was off to a great start.

Headed back to lodging for a little downtime before packing up to head to ANOTHER sponsored meal (sometimes they come quite close to each other, what can ya do). A couple of Boulder Pi Kapp alumni were overseeing a pretty sweet residential/commercial condo project called “The Peloton.” The complex is still under construction; we were visiting the sales office. Munched on quite the spread of fajitas while learning about the project…one of the associates was even giving Pops the hard sell as if he was going to buy a place after the Journey, haha.

After lunch we again had the day off…so a few of us took the time to do laundry…an absurd few of us went to bike up a steep hill near town…and some just relaxed (I went with laundry).

Around four we met up for the highlight of the day…tubing down the Boulder river…a lot like our sweet setup on the New River, but narrower, closer to town, and with a lot scary rapids. It was AWESOME…grabbed some good ole’ inner-tubes from the local gas station and headed over…tons of people all along the banks, hanging out…a couple of times those rapids pull ya down pretty hard making for a pretty crazy ride. After a good 2 miles or so we hopped out to move to our next activity: campus golf.

This is definitely an idea to bring back to VT: get a group of people, golf clubs, and tennis balls…pick some spots on campus to tee-off, with the objective of hitting a certain spot on campus (stairs, sign, fountain, whatever)….and design a course that goes all over campus. It’s a blast…apparently becoming quite the popular sport at CU (though we did annoy a few innocent bystanders who had to move)…and it was a great way to check out the beautiful campus.

As night started to fall I broke off from the golfers to meet up with Rob Schneider, a hilarious buddy from GUF ’05, and Sunshine, over at a local pizza shop for some gigantic slices of ‘zza. Caught up…reminisced about past trips…contemplated the meaning of life….all the usual stuff…before heading back to the CU house to shower up and get ready to go out.

Tonight we hit up “The Sink” for coin toss night (call it right, get a free drink!). Fun place…bunch of goofy artwork all over the walls. Sunshine crashed and burned hitting on one girl…before we headed over to a rooftop bar called “K’s” (quick shout-out to the sis). Apparently this is where all the beautiful people of Boulder congregate on Monday evenings…and not just because we’ve been hanging out with just guys all week…everyone here was legitimately attractive. Felt a little underdressed in my standard orange tee, haha. Got a little caught up in the scenery when we realized we had about five minutes to get home for our 12:30 curfew…so after Grant geniusly decided to stop and buy jello shots…we ran home and made it in on time.