colorado: May 2007 Archives
Well, we made it.
Yesterday two people, two cars, two bikes, two guinea pigs, one dog, several house plants, and and all the clothes and food and other goodies necessary to sustain all of the above arrived in our their new home. It was a long drive across all of Kansas and half of Colorado with noone to talk to the but the mutt. She's a good listener but doesn't really have much to add to the conversation.
Anywho, we rolled into town last night and checked out the place in the waning daylight. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I kept thinking to myself "I can't believe we live here now!". We aren't just on vacation this time.
We hung around Superior today, did a little shopping, checked out the apartment, and then headed to the dog park. The hound is quite a trooper and we wanted to reward her with a good romp. A woman at a pet store directed us to the nearest dog park which happened to be a pretty nice place. Maddie was impressed.
From there we had lunch in Louisville, which seems like a nice little town and then headed up to Boulder. We hung around at the Boulder Creek Festival, met some people, listened to some music, explained to the rude dog food vendor guy that our dog was in fact not too skinny, and then headed back to the hotel. Yes, we are living in a hotel for a few days ... can't WAIT to get into the apartment!
This evening we went for a little drive and somehow ended up at one of the open space parks. We walked around (Maddie was on leash due to the fact that she doesn't have a license yet and there is some sort of nesting bird thing going on at the moment) and I smiled as I saw runners and mountain bikers and dogs and looked at the mountains and remembered I was home.
Hanging out in Boulder reminded me of one very very unfortunate fact - I am extremely out of shape. Boulderites are a bunch of skinny folks and at the moment, I am not. That is the bad news. The good news is that there is just something about this place that makes me really want to get out and play. J and I both have our tri bikes with us but unfortunately we decided to take them on the car (as opposed to packing them in the moving truck) after the rest of our bike goodies had been packed away. We have bikes but we have no shoes or helmets so the riding will have to wait. I'm gonna try to go for a run tomorrow ... and for once, I can't wait!
My dad did a pretty good job of scoping out a place for us to live. The area where we will be living is a little too full of mega stores and chain restauraunts for my taste but it seems like the nearby outdoor recreation oppurtunities are fantastic and the views are absolutely stunning. J is all excited about the proximity to lots and lots and lots of tech companies just in case he decides to leave the current gig. I'm excited that we are only eight miles from Boulder for when the suburban-ness of where we will be living starts to feel a little stifling. The apartments look GREAT and there are tons and tons of dogs for Maddie to play with, and after all, it is all about Maddie.
It has been a crazy couple weeks ... finals, and my dad's cancer diagnosis, and graduation, and moving ... but things are going really pretty well on all fronts. I'm almost to the place where I can exhale.
