night out with the team and boulder, co

Saturday night a bunch of us decided to go check out the downtown nightlife in Denver.. What started out as a group of like 15 of us ended up being more like 60 people trying to squish onto one bus. Just the beginning of a crazy night ahead. We were heading for the brewery but a bunch of us broke off and stopped at some random bar that had $3 drink specials. Ended up being an awesome bar, with a dance floor and some really good music. Danced our butts off for like 3 hours until we were completely beat, then 5 of us decided to head back to campus, so we hopped on the light rail to the englewood station, closest station to campus.

We ran into another group on the train who said they knew a better way back with a bus that dropped up off right in front of campus, so we stupidly followed them and got really lost. Ended up waiting at a station far away from campus for a bus that never came, just to wait another half hour to get back on the same train we just got off of to head back to the station we were bound for originally. Thats what we get for listening to other people... NEVER AGAIN! So, we get back to the englewood station and call a cab to get back to campus cuz its hella cold outside and none of us are dressed for it. The cab company said 45 minutes minimum and they couldn't guarantee how many cabs could get there when, and we needed 4. Needless to say, we didn't wait. So we start walking what we were told was a mile walk back to campus (uphill) that ends up being 2.4miles... yeah got back to the dorms at 230am after leaving the bar over 2 hours earlier!!! insanity!!!

Woke up at 8am the next morning to a text from this girl annie about heading out to boulder to go hiking soon... wasn't gonna happen. Woke up with sore legs from hiking, dancing for 3 hrs, and walking for almost 2 the night before... not up for hiking. No matter how bad i wanted to. So a bunch of us decided to head to boulder anyway and just save the hiking for next weekend. It actually worked out really well. spent some time walking around the outdoor mall at Pearl Street, then got coffee and chilled at central park for a bit by a stream, really peaceful. Then afterwards 4 of us headed out and took a scenic byway through the Rockies, took a bunch of pictures, and stopped in this really cool little hippie town, dont remember the name of it but it was awesome. Grabbed some food and headed back to campus.. altogether an amazing day. Really great to get outside for a while and not feel like we are trapped on campus. Definitely need to go back to boulder again! It was SO pretty!

Then today we had driver training all day pretty much, which was kind of boring expect that they planned out some cool stops along the way. We stopped at Lookout Point (gorgeous), and saw where buffalo bill is buried, dressed up like cowboys and took a pic after the nice old lady at the counter let us in for free "its free if i don't see you go in" is what she said! lol love her! so great! Then went to the Columbine Memorial, sad but interesting place... thats all for today.. going to check out the book club.

i'll update soon. thanks for reading if you did. hope i didn't bore you too badly! ttys!